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