To Queen Victoria In England. An Address On Her Jubilee Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFFCFC GFGFHFHF FIFIJHJH CKCKFAFA LFLFCBCB A| Madam you have done well Let others with praise unholy | A |
| Speech addressed to a woman who never breathed upon earth | B |
| Daub you over with lies or deafen your ears with folly | A |
| I will praise you alone for your actual imminent worth | B |
| Madam you have done well Fifty years unforgotten | C |
| Pass since we saw you first a maiden simple and pure | D |
| Now when every robber landlord capitalist rotten | C |
| Hated oppressors praise you Madam we are quite sure | D |
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| Never once as a foe open foe to the popular power | E |
| As nobler kings and queens have you faced us fearless and bold | F |
| No but in backstairs fashion in the stealthy twilight hour | E |
| You have struggled and struck and stabbed you have bartered and bought and sold | F |
| Melbourne the listless liar the gentleman blood beslavered | F |
| Disraeli the faithless priest of a cynical faith out worn | C |
| These were dear to your heart these were the men you favoured | F |
| Those whom the People loved were fooled and flouted and torn | C |
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| Never in one true cause for your people's sake and the light's sake | G |
| Did you strike one honest blow did you speak one noble word | F |
| No but you took your place for the sake of wrong and the night's sake | G |
| Ever with blear eyed wealth with the greasy respectable herd | F |
| Not as some robber king with a resolute minister slave to you | H |
| Did you swagger with force against us to satisfy your greed | F |
| No but you hoarded and hid what your loyal people gave to you | H |
| Golden sweat of their toil to keep you a queen indeed | F |
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| Pure at least was your bed pure was your Court We know not | F |
| Were the white sepulchres pure Gather men thorns of grapes | I |
| Your sons and your blameless spouse's certes as Galahads show not | F |
| Round you gather a crowd of bloated hypocrite shapes | I |
| Never sure did one woman produce in such sixes and dozens | J |
| Such intellectual canaille as this that springs from you | H |
| Sons daughters grandchildren with uncles aunts and cousins | J |
| Not a man or a woman among them a wretched crew | H |
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| Madam you have done well You have fed all these to repletion | C |
| You have put a gilded calf beside a gilded cow | K |
| And bidden men and women behold the forms of human completion | C |
| Albert the Good Victoria the Virtuous for ever and now | K |
| But what to you were our bravest and best man of science and poet | F |
| Struggling for Light and Truth or the Women who would be free | A |
| Carlyle Darwin Huxley Spencer Arnold We know it | F |
| Tennyson slavers your hand Argyll fawns at your knee | A |
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| Good you were good we say You had no wit to be evil | L |
| Your purity shines serene over Floras mangled and dead | F |
| You wasted not our substance in splendour in riot or revel | L |
| You quietly sat in the shade and grew fat on our wealth instead | F |
| Madam you have done well To you we say has been given | C |
| A wit past the wit of women a supercomputable worth | B |
| Of you we can say if not of such are the Kingdom of Heaven | C |
| Of such alas for us of such are the Kingdom of Earth | B |
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| Charles I and Stafford e g | A |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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