Queens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCBBCCAADDCCCC DDCCCC| Seven dog days we let pass | A |
| Naming Queens in Glenmacnass | A |
| All the rare and royal names | A |
| Wormy sheepskin yet retains | A |
| Etain Helen Maeve and Fand | B |
| Golden Deirdre's tender hand | B |
| Bert the big foot sung by Villon | C |
| Cassandra Ronsard found in Lyon | C |
| Queens of Sheba Meath and Connaught | B |
| Coifed with crown or gaudy bonnet | B |
| Queens whose finger once did stir men | C |
| Queens were eaten of fleas and vermin | C |
| Queens men drew like Monna Lisa | A |
| Or slew with drugs in Rome and Pisa | A |
| We named Lucrezia Crivelli | D |
| And Titian's lady with amber belly | D |
| Queens acquainted in learned sin | C |
| Jane of Jewry's slender shin | C |
| Queens who cut the bogs of Glanna | C |
| Judith of Scripture and Gloriana | C |
| Queens who wasted the East by proxy | D |
| Or drove the ass cart a tinker's doxy | D |
| Yet these are rotten I ask their pardon | C |
| And we've the sun on rock and garden | C |
| These are rotten so you're the Queen | C |
| Of all the living or have been | C |
J. M. Synge
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