The Vicar Of Bray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBBDEDE FGFGBGBGDEDE HIJIKIKIDEDE LMLMNGCGDEDE EEOEBEBEDEDE EGPGBEBEDEDE| In good King Charles's golden days | A |
| When loyalty no harm meant | B |
| A furious High Church man I was | C |
| And so I gain'd preferment | B |
| Unto my flock I daily preach'd | B |
| Kings are by God appointed | B |
| And damn'd are those who dare resist | B |
| Or touch the Lord's anointed | B |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoever king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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| When Royal James possess'd the crown | F |
| And popery grew in fashion | G |
| The penal law I houted down | F |
| And read the declaration | G |
| The Church of Rome I found would fit | B |
| Full well my constitution | G |
| And I had been a Jesuit | B |
| But for the Revolution | G |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoer king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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| When William our deliverer came | H |
| To heal the nation's grievance | I |
| I turned the cat in pan again | J |
| And swore to him allegiance | I |
| Old principles I did revoke | K |
| Set conscience at a distance | I |
| Passive obedience is a joke | K |
| A jest is non resistance | I |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoer king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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| When glorious Anne became our queen | L |
| The Church of England's glory | M |
| Another face of things was seen | L |
| And I became a Tory | M |
| Occasional conformists base | N |
| I damn'd and moderation | G |
| And thought the Church in danger was | C |
| From such prevarication | G |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoer king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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| When George in pudding time came o'er | E |
| And moderate men looked big sir | E |
| My principles I chang'd once more | O |
| And so became a Whig sir | E |
| And thus preferment I procur'd | B |
| From our faith's great defender | E |
| And almost every day abjur'd | B |
| The Pope and the Pretender | E |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoer king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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| The illustrious House of Hanover | E |
| And Protestant succession | G |
| To these I lustily will swear | P |
| Whilst they can keep possession | G |
| For in my faith and loyalty | B |
| I never once will falter | E |
| George my lawful king shall be | B |
| Except the times should alter | E |
| And this is law I will maintain | D |
| Unto my dying day sir | E |
| That whatsoer king shall reign | D |
| I will be Vicar of Bray sir | E |
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