A Wicked Treasonable Libel[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACDEEEEEEEFF| While the king and his ministers keep such a pother | A |
| And all about changing one whore for another | A |
| Think I to myself what need all this strife | B |
| His majesty first had a whore of a wife | B |
| And surely the difference mounts to no more | A |
| Than now he has gotten a wife of a whore | A |
| Now give me your judgment a very nice case on | C |
| Each queen has a son say which is the base one | D |
| Say which of the two is the right Prince of Wales | E |
| To succeed when God bless him his majesty fails | E |
| Perhaps it may puzzle our loyal divines | E |
| To unite these two Protestant parallel lines | E |
| From a left handed wife and one turn'd out of doors | E |
| Two reputed king's sons both true sons of whores | E |
| No law can determine it which is first oars | E |
| But alas poor old England how wilt thou be master'd | F |
| For take which you please it must needs be a bastard | F |
Jonathan Swift
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