Our Mistress And Our Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED DFDFGHIJ KLMLNONO MPMPQQQQ DQDQDQDQ RQRQSGSG SRSRDTDT QQQQUDUD SVSWAXAX DYDZAA2AA2 GB2GB2C2GC2G DDDDADAD QDQDSQSQ SD2SD2QDQD E2QE2QF2G2F2G2 H2I2H2I2DJ2DM QI2QI2QQDK2 KL2KM2J2G2MG2 C2DC2DQN2F2N2 F2N2F2F2N2N2GI2N2 N2N2N2N2SN2SN2

We set no right above hersA
No earthly light nor starB
She hath had many loversA
But not as lovers areB
They all were gallant fellowsC
And died all deaths for herD
And never one was jealousE
But comrades true they wereD
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Oh each one is a brotherD
Though all the lands they claimF
For her or for each otherD
They ve died all deaths the sameF
Young handsome old and uglyG
Free married or divorcedH
Where springtime bard or Thug lieI
Her lover s feet have crossedJ
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Mid buttercups and daisiesK
With fair girls by their sideL
Young poets sang her praisesM
While day in starlight diedL
In smoke and fire and dust andN
With red eyes maniac likeO
Those same young poets thrust andN
Wrenched out the reeking pikeO
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She is as old as agesM
But she is ever youngP
Upon her birthday pagesM
They ve writ in every tongueP
Her charms have never vanishedQ
Nor beauty been defiledQ
Her lovers ne er were banishedQ
Can never be exiledQ
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Ah thousands died who kissed herD
But millions died who scornedQ
Our Sweetheart Queen and SisterD
Whom slaves and C sars spurnedQ
And thousands lost her for herD
Own sweet sake and the worldQ
Her first most dread adorerD
From Heaven s high state was hurledQ
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No sign of power she bearethR
In silence doth she treadQ
But evermore she wearethR
A cap of red rose redQ
Her hair is like the ravenS
Her soul is like the seaG
Her blue eyes are a havenS
That watch EternityG
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She claimed her right from HeavenS
She claims her right from earthR
She claimed it hell ward drivenS
Before her second birthR
No real man lives without herD
No real man child thrivesT
Sweet sin may cling about herD
But purity survivesT
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She claims the careless girl andQ
She claims the master mindQ
She whispers to the Earl andQ
She whispers to the hindQ
No ruler knoweth which manU
His sword for her might drawD
Her whisper wakes the rich manU
The peasant on his strawD
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She calls us from the prisonS
She calls us from the plainV
To towns where men have risenS
Again again againW
She calls us from our pleasuresA
She calls us from our caresX
She calls us from our treasuresA
She calls us from our prayersX
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From seas and oceans overD
Our long lost sons she drawsY
She calls the careless roverD
She calls us from our warsZ
The hermit she discoversA
To lead her bravest braveA2
The spirit of dead loversA
She calls them from the graveA2
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We leave the squalid alleyG
Our women and our viceB2
We leave the pleasant valleyG
Life lust or sacrificeB2
The gold hunt in the mountainsC2
The power lust on the seaG
The land lust by earth s fountainsC2
Defeat or victoryG
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No means of peace discoverD
Her strength on Nights BeforeD
She has her secret loverD
That guards the Grand Duke s doorD
No power can resist hersA
No massacre deterD
Small brothers and wee sistersA
Of lovers watch for herD
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Old dotards undetectedQ
School boys that never tireD
And lone hags unsuspectedQ
That drone beside the fireD
The youth in love s first passionS
The girl in day dream moodQ
And in the height of fashionS
The butterfly and dudeQ
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The millionaire heart brokenS
The beggar with his whineD2
And each one hath a tokenS
And each one hath a signD2
And when the time is ripe andQ
The hells of earth in powerD
The dotard drops his pipe andQ
The maiden drops a flowerD
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Oh bloody our revivalsE2
And swift our vengeance hurledQ
We ve laid our dear loved rivalsE2
In trenches round the worldQ
We ve flung off fair arms clingingF2
Health wealth and life s grand wholeG2
And marched out to her singingF2
A passion of our soulG2
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Her lovers fought on ice fieldsH2
With stone clubs long agoI2
Her lovers slave in rice fieldsH2
And in the lectric s glowI2
Her lovers pine whereverD
The lust for Nothing isJ2
They starve where light is neverD
And starve in palacesM
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They ve gathered crowded and scatteredQ
With heads and scythe blades lowI2
Through fir and pine clump spatteredQ
Like ink blots on the snowI2
With broken limbs and shatteredQ
They ve crushed like hunted bruteQ
And died in hellish tortureD
In holes beneath the roofK2
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They ve coursed through streets of citiesK
The fleeing ParliamentsL2
And songs that were not dittiesK
They ve sung by smouldering tentsM2
And trained in caps and sashesJ2
They ve heard the head drums rollG2
They ve danced on kings blood splashesM
The dreadful carmagnoleG2
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By mountains and by stationsC2
Out where wide levels areD
They ve baulked the march of nationsC2
And ridden lone and farD
The whip stroke of the bulletQ
The short grunt of distressN2
The saddled pony grazingF2
Alone and riderlessN2
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The plain in sunlight blazingF2
No signal of distressN2
Unseen by far scouts gazingF2
And still with wide eyes glazingF2
Dead lover of our mistressN2
Dead comrade of his rivalsN2
Dead champion of his countryG
Dead soldier of his widowI2
And of his fatherlessN2
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She pauses by her writersN2
And whispers through the yearsN2
The poems that delight usN2
And bring the glorious tearsN2
The song goes on unbrokenS
Through worlds of senseless dronesN2
Until the words are spokenS
By Emperors on their thronesN2

Henry Lawson



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