On The Young Statesmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CCACA ADAAB EFGGH IJKIJ ALAAL| CLARENDON had law and sense | A |
| Clifford was fierce and brave | B |
| Bennet's grave look was a pretence | A |
| And Danby's matchless impudence | A |
| Help'd to support the knave | B |
| - | |
| But Sunderland Godolphin Lory | C |
| These will appear such chits in story | C |
| 'Twill turn all politics to jests | A |
| To be repeated like John Dory | C |
| When fiddlers sing at feasts | A |
| - | |
| Protect us mighty Providence | A |
| What would these madmen have | D |
| First they would bribe us without pence | A |
| Deceive us without common sense | A |
| And without power enslave | B |
| - | |
| Shall free torn men in humble awe | E |
| Submit to servile shame | F |
| Who from consent and custom draw | G |
| The same right to be ruled by law | G |
| Which kings pretend to reign | H |
| - | |
| The duke shall wield his conquering sword | I |
| The chancellor make a speech | J |
| The king shall pass his honest word | K |
| The pawn'd revenue sums afford | I |
| And then come kiss my breech | J |
| - | |
| So have I seen a king on chess | A |
| His rooks and knights withdrawn | L |
| His queen and bishops in distress | A |
| Shifting about grow less and less | A |
| With here and there a pawn | L |
John Dryden
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