Preface To The Englishman And Other Poems - The Queen's Last Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEEBB FFGGHHGG IIJJGG DD| Written on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral | A |
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| The Queen is taking a drive to day | B |
| They have hung with purple the carriage way | B |
| They have dressed with purple the royal track | C |
| Where the Queen goes forth and never comes back | C |
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| Let no man labour as she goes by | D |
| On her last appearance to mortal eye | D |
| With heads uncovered let all men wait | E |
| For the Queen to pass in her regal state | E |
| Army and Navy shall lead the way | B |
| For that wonderful coach of the Queen's to day | B |
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| Kings and Princes and Lords of the land | F |
| Shall ride behind her a humble band | F |
| And over the city and over the world | G |
| Shall the Flags of all Nations be half mast furled | G |
| For the silent lady of royal birth | H |
| Who is riding away from the Courts of earth | H |
| Riding away from the world's unrest | G |
| To a mystical goal on a secret quest | G |
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| Though in royal splendour she drives through town | I |
| Her robes are simple she wears no crown | I |
| And yet she wears one for widowed no more | J |
| She is crowned with the love that has gone before | J |
| And crowned with the love she has left behind | G |
| In the hidden depths of each mourner's mind | G |
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| Bow low your heads lift your hearts on high | D |
| The Queen in silence is driving by | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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