The Queen's Last Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE BBFFGGHHGG IIJJGG DDWritten 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 |
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Army and Navy shall lead the way | B |
For that wonderful coach of the Queen's to day | B |
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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