Queen Victoria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHE IJKLMNOG PQRSTUJV WH NXUSYZA2B2 C2QD2E2IF2VG2H2I2| A | |
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| The sunshine streaming through the stain d glass | B |
| Touched her with rosy colors as she stood | C |
| The maiden Queen of all the British realm | D |
| In the old Abbey on that soft June day | E |
| Youth shone within her eyes where God had set | F |
| All steadfastness and high resolve and truth | G |
| Youth flushed her cheek dwelt on the smooth white brow | H |
| Whereon the heavy golden circlet lay | E |
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| The ashes of dead kings the history of | I |
| A nation's growth of strife and victory | J |
| The mighty past called soft through aisle and nave | K |
| Be strong O Queen be strong as thou art fair | L |
| A virgin white of soul and unafraid | M |
| Since back of her was God and at her feet | N |
| A people loyal to the core and strong | O |
| And loving well her sweetness and her youth | G |
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| Upon her woman's head earth's richest crown | P |
| Hath sat with grace these sixty years and more | Q |
| Her hand her slender woman's hand hath held | R |
| The weightiest sceptre held it with such power | S |
| All homage hath been hers at home abroad | T |
| Where'er hath dwelt a chivalrous regard | U |
| For strength of purpose and for purity | J |
| For grand achievement and for noble aim | V |
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| To day the cares of State no longer vex | W |
| To day the crown is laid from off her brow | H |
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| Dead The great heart of her no more will beat | N |
| With tenderness for all beneath her rule | X |
| Dead The clear eyes of her no more will guard | U |
| The nation's welfare Dead The arm of her | S |
| No more will strike a mighty blow for right | Y |
| And justice make a wide world stand amazed | Z |
| That one so gentle as old England's Queen | A2 |
| Could be so fearless and so powerful | B2 |
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| Full wearily the sense of grief doth press | C2 |
| And weight us down The good Queen is no more | Q |
| And we are fain to weep as children weep | D2 |
| When greedy death comes to the home and bears | E2 |
| From thence the mother whose unfailing love | I |
| Hath been their wealth their safeguard and their pride | F2 |
| O bells that toll in every zone and clime | V |
| There is a sound of sobbing in your breath | G2 |
| East west north south the solemn clamor goes | H2 |
| Voicing a great a universal grief | I2 |
Jean Blewett
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