Lord Lundy Ii - Second Canto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK LLAAMN DDOOPPQQRRS TT| It happened to Lord Lundy then | A |
| As happens to so many men | A |
| Towards the age of twenty six | B |
| They shoved him into politics | B |
| In which profession he commanded | C |
| The Income that his rank demanded | C |
| In turn as Secretary for | D |
| India the Colonies and War | D |
| But very soon his friends began | E |
| To doubt is he were quite the man | E |
| Thus if a member rose to say | F |
| As members do from day to day | F |
| 'Arising out of that reply ' | G |
| Lord Lundy would begin to cry | H |
| A Hint at harmless little jobs | I |
| Would shake him with convulsive sobs | I |
| While as for Revelations these | J |
| Would simply bring him to his knees | J |
| And leave him whimpering like a child | K |
| It drove his colleagues raving wild | K |
| They let him sink from Post to Post | L |
| From fifteen hundred at the most | L |
| To eight and barely six and then | A |
| To be Curator of Big Ben | A |
| And finally there came a Threat | M |
| To oust him from the Cabinet | N |
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| The Duke his aged grand sire bore | D |
| The shame till he could bear no more | D |
| He rallied his declining powers | O |
| Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers | O |
| And bitterly addressed him thus | P |
| 'Sir you have disappointed us | P |
| We had intended you to be | Q |
| The next Prime Minister but three | Q |
| The stocks were sold the Press was squared | R |
| The Middle Class was quite prepared | R |
| But as it is My language fails | S |
| Go out and govern New South Wales ' | - |
| - | |
| The Aged Patriot groaned and died | T |
| And gracious how Lord Lundy cried | T |
Hilaire Belloc
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