Cromwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIJKLKL MNONPQRQ NSTSUVNV WXYXZYA2Y B2C2D2C2E2F2MF2 G2H2I2H2B2H2J2H2 IJ2H2K2L2M2L2H2 AI2N2I2H2UE2U H2BH2BCH2YH2 H2O2H2O2INP2NThey took dead Cromwell from his grave | A |
And stuck his head on high | B |
The Merry Monarch and his men | C |
They laughed as they passed by | B |
The common people cheered and jeered | D |
To England s deep disgrace | E |
The crowds who d ne er have dared to look | F |
Live Cromwell in the face | E |
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He came in England s direst need | G |
With law and fire and sword | H |
He thrashed her enemies at home | I |
And crushed her foes abroad | J |
He kept his word by sea and land | K |
His parliament he schooled | L |
He made the nations understand | K |
A Man in England ruled | L |
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Van Tromp with twice the English ships | M |
And flushed by victory | N |
A great broom to his masthead bound | O |
Set sail to sweep the sea | N |
But England s ruler was a man | P |
Who needed lots of room | Q |
So Blake soon lowered the Dutchman s tone | R |
And smashed the Dutchman s broom | Q |
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He sent a bill to Tuscany | N |
For sixty thousand pounds | S |
For wrong done to his subjects there | T |
And merchants in her bounds | S |
He sent by Debt Collector Blake | U |
And you need but be told | V |
That by the Duke of Tuscany | N |
That bill was paid in gold | V |
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To pirate ports in Africa | W |
He sent a message grim | X |
To have each captured Englishman | Y |
Delivered up to him | X |
And every ship and cargo s worth | Z |
And every boat and gun | Y |
And this all this as Dickens says | A2 |
Was gloriously done | Y |
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They d tortured English prisoners | B2 |
Who d sailed the Spanish Main | C2 |
So Cromwell sent a little bill | D2 |
By Admiral Blake to Spain | C2 |
To keep his hand in by the way | E2 |
He whipped the Portuguese | F2 |
And he made it safe for English ships | M |
To sail the Spanish seas | F2 |
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The Protestants in Southern lands | G2 |
Had long been sore oppressed | H2 |
They sent their earnest prayers to Noll | I2 |
To have their wrongs redressed | H2 |
He sent a message to the Powers | B2 |
In which he told them flat | H2 |
All men must praise God as they chose | J2 |
Or he would see to that | H2 |
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And when he d hanged the fools at home | I |
And settled foreign rows | J2 |
He found the time to potter round | H2 |
Amongst his pigs and cows | K2 |
Of private rows he never spoke | L2 |
That grand old Ironsides | M2 |
They said a father s strong heart broke | L2 |
When Cromwell s daughter died | H2 |
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They dragged his body from its grave | A |
His head stuck on a pole | I2 |
They threw his wife s and daughter s bones | N2 |
Into a rubbish hole | I2 |
To rot with those of two who d lived | H2 |
And fought for England s sake | U |
And each one in his own brave way | E2 |
Great Pym and Admiral Blake | U |
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From Charles to Charles throughout the world | H2 |
Old England s name was high | B |
And that s a thing no Royalist | H2 |
Could ever yet deny | B |
Long shameful years have passed since then | C |
In spite of England s boast | H2 |
But Englishmen were Englishmen | Y |
While Cromwell carved the roast | H2 |
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And in my country s hour of need | H2 |
For it shall surely come | O2 |
While run by fools who ll never heed | H2 |
The beating of the drum | O2 |
While baffled by the fools at home | I |
And threatened from the sea | N |
Lord send a man like Oliver | P2 |
And let me live to see | N |
Henry Lawson
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