The Windsor Prophecy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCEEFFCCGDGGGGGG HHHHII| When a holy black Swede the son of Bob | A |
| With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob | B |
| Shall not see one New Years day in that year | C |
| Then let old England make good cheer | C |
| Windsor and Bristol then shall be | D |
| Joined together in the Low countree | C |
| Then shall the tall black Daventry Bird | E |
| Speak against peace right many a word | E |
| And some shall admire his coneying wit | F |
| For many good groats his tongue shall slit | F |
| But spight of the Harpy that crawls on all four | C |
| There shall be peace pardie and war no more | C |
| But England must cry alack and well a day | G |
| If the stick be taken from the dead sea | D |
| And dear Englond if ought I understond | G |
| Beware of Carrots from Northumberlond | G |
| Carrots sown Thynne a deep root may get | G |
| If so be they are in Somer set | G |
| Their Conyngs mark thou for I have been told | G |
| They assassine when younge and poison when old | G |
| Root out these Carrots O thou whose name | H |
| is backwards and forwards always the same | H |
| And keep thee close to thee always that name | H |
| Which backwards and forwards is almost the same | H |
| And England wouldst thou be happy still | I |
| Burn those Carrots under a Hill | I |
Jonathan Swift
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