The King-s Evil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FAFAGHGH IAIAJKJK LMLMNONO| They brought them up from their huts in the fens | A |
| The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim | B |
| They flocked from the city's noisome dens | A |
| To the Monarch's throne to be touched by him | B |
| 'For his touch ' they whisper 'is sovereign balm | C |
| The anointed King has a power to heal ' | D |
| Oh the piteous prayers as the royal palm | C |
| Is laid on their necks while they humbly kneel | E |
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| Blind hope But the cruel and cold deceit | F |
| A rich reward to the palace brings | A |
| A snare for the untaught People's feet | F |
| And a courtier's lie for the good of Kings | A |
| But the years are sands and they slip away | G |
| Till the baseless wall in the sun lies bare | H |
| The touch of the King has no balm to day | G |
| And the Right Divine is the People's share | H |
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| The word remains but the Evil now | I |
| Is caused not cured by imperial hands | A |
| The lightless soul and the narrow brow | I |
| The servile millions in armed bands | A |
| The sweat wrung gold from the peasant's toil | J |
| Flung merrily out by the gambling lord | K |
| Who is reckless owner of serf and soil | J |
| And master of church and law and sword | K |
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| But the night has receded the dawn like a tide | L |
| Creeps slow round the world till the feet of the throne | M |
| Are lapped by the waves that shall seethe and ride | L |
| Where the titles are gulfed and the shields overblown | M |
| Our Kings are the same as the Kings of old | N |
| But a Man stands up where there crouched a clown | O |
| The Evil shall die when his hand grows bold | N |
| And the touch of the People is laid on the Crown | O |
John Boyle O'reilly
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