A Ballade Of Lost Law Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDECEC A BCBEECEC A BEBEECFC F G ECEC| Spirit of Lord Eldon speaks | A |
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| This England is gone staring mad | B |
| She hath abolished Chancery J | C |
| See the long lines of suitors sad | B |
| To find themselves unwontedly | D |
| After one day of trial free | E |
| Pleading and seals have gone their way | C |
| I know said I that after me | E |
| Too quickly comes the evil day | C |
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| Spirit of Lord Lyndhurst speaks | A |
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| I was Chief Baron and I had | B |
| A Court of Law and Equity K | C |
| The Courts at Westminster were clad | B |
| With ancient glory fair to see | E |
| Now County Courts have come to be | E |
| Exalted high on our decay | C |
| And every whit as good as we | E |
| Too quickly comes the evil day | C |
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| Shade of Butler speaks | A |
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| In days of yore we used to pad | B |
| Our deeds with words of certainty | E |
| Alas that now the office lad | B |
| Is qualified to grant in fee | E |
| Lost is our old supremacy | E |
| Lost is the delicate display | C |
| Of learning on pur autre vie | F |
| Too quickly comes the evil day | C |
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| L'ENVOI | F |
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| The Three in Chorus | G |
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| Thurlow to thee we bend the knee | E |
| When law was law then men were gay | C |
| 'Tis down with port and up with tea | E |
| Too quickly comes the evil day | C |
James Williams
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