The Holy Constitution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEEFEG HHFIIF JFJ KKL MNOO P QQFEEFOOFOF RRSEESSSFTF UUVWW Q FQF SSSXXSEEFEF YYEZZESSFSF| Read ye here the song as sung | A |
| By a chief named briefly Ung | A |
| In the days when arguments were manly axes | B |
| 'O my people this my Law | C |
| Is without defect or flaw | C |
| And it governs ways and means and rates and taxes | D |
| To amend it were unwise | E |
| And if any tribesman tries | E |
| He will meet with swift unerring retribution | F |
| 'Tis omnipotent infallible as all may recognise | E |
| In short it is out Noble Constitution ' | G |
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| When this Neolithic man | H |
| Gave the world his early plan | H |
| Of tribal laws to bind his nascent nation | F |
| He opined with fine conceit | I |
| That his System was complete | I |
| And the acme of all human legislation | F |
| 'For all time this Law shall stand ' | - |
| He decreed with manner grand | J |
| And a splendid disregard for evolution | F |
| And the Tory crowd that followed bore this tenet in its hand | J |
| 'You must never touch the Sacred Constitution ' | - |
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| So the Party then in power | K |
| To improve the shining hour | K |
| Contracted quite a pleasing little habit | L |
| Safely guarded in their 'right ' | - |
| If they fancied aught in sight | M |
| Being 'constitutionally safe ' they'd grab it | N |
| And they told the rank and file | O |
| With a patronising smile | O |
| When the People talked of 'wrongs' and 'persecution ' | - |
| 'It is very very sad and no doubt your case is bad | P |
| But we cannot tamper with the Constitution ' | - |
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| But meat winners of the day | Q |
| Rabid Socialists were they | Q |
| By slow degrees arrived at this conclusion | F |
| That the hide bound Tory joss | E |
| Totalled mainly bluff and dross | E |
| And its 'sacredness' was wholly an illusion | F |
| Then with yells and growlings vile | O |
| In their quaint primeval style | O |
| They planned a prehistoric revolution | F |
| And with bits of tertiary rock they wrecked the Torries' smile | O |
| And incidentally the Constitution | F |
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| All this happened as you know | R |
| Quite a long long time ago | R |
| And the world has since known Greece and Rome and Sparta | S |
| Medes and Persians and such fools | E |
| Who were bound by cast iron rules | E |
| Which reminds us of Old England's Magna Charta | S |
| There's no doubt when England pressed | S |
| Hard to have her wrongs redressed | S |
| And 'persuaded' John to sign the resolution | F |
| That hard shell old Tory King thought it quite a shocking thing | T |
| To meddle with the Holy constitution | F |
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| So on ever since King John | U |
| As the world moves surely on | U |
| And the People cry for reformation drastic | V |
| You can hear right down the line | W |
| E'er the same old Tory whine | W |
| Protesting 'It is most iconoclastic ' | - |
| 'Tis the same old Tory way | Q |
| Same old 'everlasting nay ' | - |
| 'Tis the same reactionary elocution | F |
| But who stood for 'Progress' yesterday is 'Retrograde' today | Q |
| And we've got to meddle with the Constitution | F |
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| While the Fatman waxes fat | S |
| He's content to stop at that | S |
| He will bless the Constitution and defend it | S |
| But whene'er it needs repair | X |
| 'Tis the man who works his share | X |
| That uprises patriotic to amend it | S |
| Oh it's not the slightest use | E |
| When your 'right' becomes 'abuse' | E |
| 'Tis the law of legislative evolution | F |
| That every Great Reform is won 'spite arguments abuse | E |
| By altering the blessed Constitution | F |
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| Gentle Tory prithee hark | Y |
| Back to Ung of ages dark | Y |
| And defend his blessed code with sandstone axes | E |
| Mayhap in that murky bourne | Z |
| You'll escape a fate forlorn | Z |
| Full of New Protection and Progressive Taxes | E |
| And you won't be sorely missed | S |
| If you fall beneath some fist | S |
| For young Progress shouts for men of execution | F |
| And as regards reform and such WE'LL DO JUST AS WE LIST | S |
| For it's Ours this High and Holy Constitution | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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