Ode For The Queen's Jubilee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBCEFFGHIGIF BCBCDEEGJGJKLJMM CKN N CCCCCKOO K NPNPQRQSMCM CTUTUCCVVCVWXCW K TTKKKBPBPKKVYVYZZ K CA2CA2B2B2C2C2D2CCD2 A2E2NE2MMMF2E2F2E2E2 PG2G2PK

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Sailor William is dead And nowB
Toll the great bells disconsolateC
Let the maiden have time for tearsD
Ere you set on her gentle browB
England's glittering crown of stateC
Heavy burden for eighteen yearsE
Grant the maiden some weeping spaceF
Ere on her youthful brow you placeF
England's crownG
Once her stately head it pressesH
Fifty years it must rest on her tressesI
Till their brownG
Turns to white beneath King Time's caressesI
Grant her weeping spaceF
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Set the crown on the maiden's browB
And silence the bells disconsolateC
Peal Ye loud joy bells nowB
Over city and wold let your echoes reverberateC
Peal for the crowning of smiles and the death of tearsD
Peal for the crowning of hopes and the death of fearsE
Peal for a Queen who shall rule us for fifty yearsE
The maiden is crowned with her glorious crownG
Heavy with careJ
Yet it shall never burden her downG
Into despairJ
We will watch over her with our loveK
And our loyalty proveL
We will bear each his shareJ
Of the worry grief and painM
That may seek to mar her reignM
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Blow ye silvery bugles over the sunny landC
Our Queen has yielded to loveK
Ring out with merry clangor O ye bellsN
Ye mountains give the laughing bells reply-
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Hark how the joyous tumult sinks and swellsN
And beats against the sky-
In melodyC
Mark how the billows of the mighty seaC
Toss their white arms in gleeC
And race along the strandC
Joining their voices with the symphonyC
Our Queen has yielded to loveK
Blow silvery bugles blowO
That all may knowO
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Toll toll ye deep mouthed bellsN
Answer each thundering gunP
Your cadence sadly tellsN
Of a great life work doneP
Death rules this changing earthQ
Through royal halls he stalksR
And with an awful mirthQ
Man's noblest efforts mocksS
He stills the busy brainM
Tears loving souls apartC
And leaves alone to reignM
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A Queen with empty heartC
Upon her lonely throneT
She sits and ever weepsU
For him who once her ownT
Now wed to heaven sleepsU
Albert has fallen conquered by Death's dartC
A shadow lies across her anguished heartC
She dwells in loneliness that none can gaugeV
In grief that only heaven can assuageV
She trembles and her soul would fain departC
And beats with tireless wings against its cageV
Oh live for us dear QueenW
Thou who for years hast beenX
Our leader in all goodC
Live Live for us O QueenW
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Ring ye loud bells in deep triumphal toneT
And bind a zoneT
Around this earth of glorious melodyK
Till land and seaK
Awaken and rejoicing answer yeK
Ah noble Queen who lookst around thee nowB
On this great nationP
Thy life since first the circlet touched thy browB
Was consecrationP
Of self to us Through half a centuryK
From darkness into light we followed theeK
The poet patriot warrior statesman sageV
Have given thee service longY
Lending their fiery youth and thoughtful ageV
To make thy sceptre strongY
And in the never ending march of manZ
To higher things still England leads the vanZ
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In fifty years what change The world is boundC
In close communion and a sentence fliesA2
O'er half the earth ere yet the voice's soundC
Upon the calm air diesA2
Behold at England's feet her offspring pourB2
Their bounteous storeB2
To her each yieldsC2
The first fruits of its virgin fieldsC2
Each country throwsD2
Its hospitable portals open wideC
To the great tideC
That from the dense thronged mother country flowsD2
New homes ariseA2
By rivers once unknown among whose reedsE2
The wild fowl fed but now no longer dwellsN
No more the bison feedsE2
Upon the prairie for the once drear plainM
Laughs in the sun and waves its golden grainM
By a slender chainM
Ocean is linked to ocean and the humF2
Of labor in the wilderness foretellsE2
The greatness of a nation yet to comeF2
In Southern seasE2
Another nation grows by slow degreesE2
In dreamy India under tropic sunP
Two hundred millions own an Empress' swayG2
And day by dayG2
New territories wonP
Shed lustre on our Queen's half centuryK

Arthur Weir



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