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 PG2G2PKA | |
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I | - |
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Sailor William is dead And now | B |
Toll the great bells disconsolate | C |
Let the maiden have time for tears | D |
Ere you set on her gentle brow | B |
England's glittering crown of state | C |
Heavy burden for eighteen years | E |
Grant the maiden some weeping space | F |
Ere on her youthful brow you place | F |
England's crown | G |
Once her stately head it presses | H |
Fifty years it must rest on her tresses | I |
Till their brown | G |
Turns to white beneath King Time's caresses | I |
Grant her weeping space | F |
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II | - |
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Set the crown on the maiden's brow | B |
And silence the bells disconsolate | C |
Peal Ye loud joy bells now | B |
Over city and wold let your echoes reverberate | C |
Peal for the crowning of smiles and the death of tears | D |
Peal for the crowning of hopes and the death of fears | E |
Peal for a Queen who shall rule us for fifty years | E |
The maiden is crowned with her glorious crown | G |
Heavy with care | J |
Yet it shall never burden her down | G |
Into despair | J |
We will watch over her with our love | K |
And our loyalty prove | L |
We will bear each his share | J |
Of the worry grief and pain | M |
That may seek to mar her reign | M |
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III | - |
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Blow ye silvery bugles over the sunny land | C |
Our Queen has yielded to love | K |
Ring out with merry clangor O ye bells | N |
Ye mountains give the laughing bells reply | - |
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Hark how the joyous tumult sinks and swells | N |
And beats against the sky | - |
In melody | C |
Mark how the billows of the mighty sea | C |
Toss their white arms in glee | C |
And race along the strand | C |
Joining their voices with the symphony | C |
Our Queen has yielded to love | K |
Blow silvery bugles blow | O |
That all may know | O |
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IV | K |
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Toll toll ye deep mouthed bells | N |
Answer each thundering gun | P |
Your cadence sadly tells | N |
Of a great life work done | P |
Death rules this changing earth | Q |
Through royal halls he stalks | R |
And with an awful mirth | Q |
Man's noblest efforts mocks | S |
He stills the busy brain | M |
Tears loving souls apart | C |
And leaves alone to reign | M |
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A Queen with empty heart | C |
Upon her lonely throne | T |
She sits and ever weeps | U |
For him who once her own | T |
Now wed to heaven sleeps | U |
Albert has fallen conquered by Death's dart | C |
A shadow lies across her anguished heart | C |
She dwells in loneliness that none can gauge | V |
In grief that only heaven can assuage | V |
She trembles and her soul would fain depart | C |
And beats with tireless wings against its cage | V |
Oh live for us dear Queen | W |
Thou who for years hast been | X |
Our leader in all good | C |
Live Live for us O Queen | W |
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V | K |
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Ring ye loud bells in deep triumphal tone | T |
And bind a zone | T |
Around this earth of glorious melody | K |
Till land and sea | K |
Awaken and rejoicing answer ye | K |
Ah noble Queen who lookst around thee now | B |
On this great nation | P |
Thy life since first the circlet touched thy brow | B |
Was consecration | P |
Of self to us Through half a century | K |
From darkness into light we followed thee | K |
The poet patriot warrior statesman sage | V |
Have given thee service long | Y |
Lending their fiery youth and thoughtful age | V |
To make thy sceptre strong | Y |
And in the never ending march of man | Z |
To higher things still England leads the van | Z |
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VI | K |
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In fifty years what change The world is bound | C |
In close communion and a sentence flies | A2 |
O'er half the earth ere yet the voice's sound | C |
Upon the calm air dies | A2 |
Behold at England's feet her offspring pour | B2 |
Their bounteous store | B2 |
To her each yields | C2 |
The first fruits of its virgin fields | C2 |
Each country throws | D2 |
Its hospitable portals open wide | C |
To the great tide | C |
That from the dense thronged mother country flows | D2 |
New homes arise | A2 |
By rivers once unknown among whose reeds | E2 |
The wild fowl fed but now no longer dwells | N |
No more the bison feeds | E2 |
Upon the prairie for the once drear plain | M |
Laughs in the sun and waves its golden grain | M |
By a slender chain | M |
Ocean is linked to ocean and the hum | F2 |
Of labor in the wilderness foretells | E2 |
The greatness of a nation yet to come | F2 |
In Southern seas | E2 |
Another nation grows by slow degrees | E2 |
In dreamy India under tropic sun | P |
Two hundred millions own an Empress' sway | G2 |
And day by day | G2 |
New territories won | P |
Shed lustre on our Queen's half century | K |
Arthur Weir
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