Parody On "the Golden Days Of Good Queen Bess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBB AABBA BBBBA BBBBA ACBBA| To my Muse give attention and deem it not a mystery | A |
| If I jumble up together music poetry and history | A |
| To sing of the vices of wicked Queen Bess sir | B |
| Whose memory posterity with blushes shall confess sir | B |
| Detested be the memory of wicked Queen Bess sir | B |
| Whose memory posterity with blushes shall confess sir | B |
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| In saying she would die a maid she England did amuse ye | A |
| But what she did and what she died I hope you will excuse me | A |
| A gallant Earl a miracle of passion for her fed sir | B |
| She kiss'd him and she clos'd the scene by striking off his head sir | B |
| Detested be c | A |
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| Oh rude ungrateful Scotland had thy desolated Queen sir | B |
| No blue eyes ever known nor had she beauteous been sir | B |
| The envy of our old rival hag she might have baffled sir | B |
| Nor with her guiltless blood have crimson'd o'er the scaffold sir | B |
| Detested be c | A |
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| She dress'd just like a porcupine and din'd just like a pig sir | B |
| And an over running butt of sack she swallow'd at a swig sir | B |
| Her brawny maids of honour ate and drank confounded hard sir | B |
| And droves of oxen daily bled within her palace yard sir | B |
| Detested be c | A |
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| In ruling she was wonderous tyrannical and surly | A |
| If a patriot only touch'd on the Queen or Master Burleigh | C |
| She'd send a file of soldiers in less than half an hour sir | B |
| Just to bid him make his speeches to the prisons of the Tow'r sir | B |
| Detested be c | A |
John Carr (sir)
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