Peace And Dunkirk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEF GHGHIIDJJ KHKHLLDHH MNOPHHDQQ| Spite of Dutch friends and English foes | A |
| Poor Britain shall have peace at last | B |
| Holland got towns and we got blows | A |
| But Dunkirk's ours we'll hold it fast | B |
| We have got it in a string | C |
| And the Whigs may all go swing | C |
| For among good friends I love to be plain | D |
| All their false deluded hopes | E |
| Will or ought to end in ropes | E |
| 'But the Queen shall enjoy her own again ' | F |
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| Sunderland's run out of his wits | G |
| And Dismal double Dismal looks | H |
| Wharton can only swear by fits | G |
| And strutting Hal is off the hooks | H |
| Old Godolphin full of spleen | I |
| Made false moves and lost his Queen | I |
| Harry look'd fierce and shook his ragged mane | D |
| But a Prince of high renown | J |
| Swore he'd rather lose a crown | J |
| 'Than the Queen should enjoy her own again ' | - |
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| Our merchant ships may cut the line | K |
| And not be snapt by privateers | H |
| And commoners who love good wine | K |
| Will drink it now as well as peers | H |
| Landed men shall have their rent | L |
| Yet our stocks rise cent per cent | L |
| The Dutch from hence shall no more millions drain | D |
| We'll bring on us no more debts | H |
| Nor with bankrupts fill gazettes | H |
| 'And the Queen shall enjoy her own again ' | - |
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| The towns we took ne'er did us good | M |
| What signified the French to beat | N |
| We spent our money and our blood | O |
| To make the Dutchmen proud and great | P |
| But the Lord of Oxford swears | H |
| Dunkirk never shall be theirs | H |
| The Dutch hearted Whigs may rail and complain | D |
| But true Englishmen may fill | Q |
| A good health to General Hill | Q |
| 'For the Queen now enjoys her own again ' | - |
Jonathan Swift
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