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 N2N2N2N2SN2SN2We set no right above hers | A |
No earthly light nor star | B |
She hath had many lovers | A |
But not as lovers are | B |
They all were gallant fellows | C |
And died all deaths for her | D |
And never one was jealous | E |
But comrades true they were | D |
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Oh each one is a brother | D |
Though all the lands they claim | F |
For her or for each other | D |
They ve died all deaths the same | F |
Young handsome old and ugly | G |
Free married or divorced | H |
Where springtime bard or Thug lie | I |
Her lover s feet have crossed | J |
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Mid buttercups and daisies | K |
With fair girls by their side | L |
Young poets sang her praises | M |
While day in starlight died | L |
In smoke and fire and dust and | N |
With red eyes maniac like | O |
Those same young poets thrust and | N |
Wrenched out the reeking pike | O |
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She is as old as ages | M |
But she is ever young | P |
Upon her birthday pages | M |
They ve writ in every tongue | P |
Her charms have never vanished | Q |
Nor beauty been defiled | Q |
Her lovers ne er were banished | Q |
Can never be exiled | Q |
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Ah thousands died who kissed her | D |
But millions died who scorned | Q |
Our Sweetheart Queen and Sister | D |
Whom slaves and C sars spurned | Q |
And thousands lost her for her | D |
Own sweet sake and the world | Q |
Her first most dread adorer | D |
From Heaven s high state was hurled | Q |
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No sign of power she beareth | R |
In silence doth she tread | Q |
But evermore she weareth | R |
A cap of red rose red | Q |
Her hair is like the raven | S |
Her soul is like the sea | G |
Her blue eyes are a haven | S |
That watch Eternity | G |
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She claimed her right from Heaven | S |
She claims her right from earth | R |
She claimed it hell ward driven | S |
Before her second birth | R |
No real man lives without her | D |
No real man child thrives | T |
Sweet sin may cling about her | D |
But purity survives | T |
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She claims the careless girl and | Q |
She claims the master mind | Q |
She whispers to the Earl and | Q |
She whispers to the hind | Q |
No ruler knoweth which man | U |
His sword for her might draw | D |
Her whisper wakes the rich man | U |
The peasant on his straw | D |
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She calls us from the prison | S |
She calls us from the plain | V |
To towns where men have risen | S |
Again again again | W |
She calls us from our pleasures | A |
She calls us from our cares | X |
She calls us from our treasures | A |
She calls us from our prayers | X |
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From seas and oceans over | D |
Our long lost sons she draws | Y |
She calls the careless rover | D |
She calls us from our wars | Z |
The hermit she discovers | A |
To lead her bravest brave | A2 |
The spirit of dead lovers | A |
She calls them from the grave | A2 |
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We leave the squalid alley | G |
Our women and our vice | B2 |
We leave the pleasant valley | G |
Life lust or sacrifice | B2 |
The gold hunt in the mountains | C2 |
The power lust on the sea | G |
The land lust by earth s fountains | C2 |
Defeat or victory | G |
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No means of peace discover | D |
Her strength on Nights Before | D |
She has her secret lover | D |
That guards the Grand Duke s door | D |
No power can resist hers | A |
No massacre deter | D |
Small brothers and wee sisters | A |
Of lovers watch for her | D |
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Old dotards undetected | Q |
School boys that never tire | D |
And lone hags unsuspected | Q |
That drone beside the fire | D |
The youth in love s first passion | S |
The girl in day dream mood | Q |
And in the height of fashion | S |
The butterfly and dude | Q |
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The millionaire heart broken | S |
The beggar with his whine | D2 |
And each one hath a token | S |
And each one hath a sign | D2 |
And when the time is ripe and | Q |
The hells of earth in power | D |
The dotard drops his pipe and | Q |
The maiden drops a flower | D |
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Oh bloody our revivals | E2 |
And swift our vengeance hurled | Q |
We ve laid our dear loved rivals | E2 |
In trenches round the world | Q |
We ve flung off fair arms clinging | F2 |
Health wealth and life s grand whole | G2 |
And marched out to her singing | F2 |
A passion of our soul | G2 |
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Her lovers fought on ice fields | H2 |
With stone clubs long ago | I2 |
Her lovers slave in rice fields | H2 |
And in the lectric s glow | I2 |
Her lovers pine wherever | D |
The lust for Nothing is | J2 |
They starve where light is never | D |
And starve in palaces | M |
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They ve gathered crowded and scattered | Q |
With heads and scythe blades low | I2 |
Through fir and pine clump spattered | Q |
Like ink blots on the snow | I2 |
With broken limbs and shattered | Q |
They ve crushed like hunted brute | Q |
And died in hellish torture | D |
In holes beneath the roof | K2 |
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They ve coursed through streets of cities | K |
The fleeing Parliaments | L2 |
And songs that were not ditties | K |
They ve sung by smouldering tents | M2 |
And trained in caps and sashes | J2 |
They ve heard the head drums roll | G2 |
They ve danced on kings blood splashes | M |
The dreadful carmagnole | G2 |
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By mountains and by stations | C2 |
Out where wide levels are | D |
They ve baulked the march of nations | C2 |
And ridden lone and far | D |
The whip stroke of the bullet | Q |
The short grunt of distress | N2 |
The saddled pony grazing | F2 |
Alone and riderless | N2 |
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The plain in sunlight blazing | F2 |
No signal of distress | N2 |
Unseen by far scouts gazing | F2 |
And still with wide eyes glazing | F2 |
Dead lover of our mistress | N2 |
Dead comrade of his rivals | N2 |
Dead champion of his country | G |
Dead soldier of his widow | I2 |
And of his fatherless | N2 |
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She pauses by her writers | N2 |
And whispers through the years | N2 |
The poems that delight us | N2 |
And bring the glorious tears | N2 |
The song goes on unbroken | S |
Through worlds of senseless drones | N2 |
Until the words are spoken | S |
By Emperors on their thrones | N2 |
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