Henry The Seventh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LMFM LNON PFQF PLRL STUT SSOS SFLF FVWV SXYX SZA2Z OSB2S SLC2L SRD2R FLE2L F2GG2G| Henry the Seventh of England | A |
| Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer | B |
| The only connection of which he could boast | C |
| He were King's nephew's brother in law | D |
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| It were after the Wars of the Roses | E |
| That he came to the front as it were | F |
| When on strength of his having slain Richard the Third | G |
| He put himself up as his heir | H |
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| T'were a bit of a blow to the Barons | I |
| When Henry aspired to the Throne | J |
| And some who'd been nursing imperial hopes | K |
| Started pushing out claims of their own | J |
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| But they didn't get far with their scheming | L |
| For the moment the matter were pressed | M |
| A stroke of the pen took them off to the Tower | F |
| Where a stroke of the axe did the rest | M |
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| A feller they called Perkin Warbeck | L |
| Was the one who led Henry a dance | N |
| To make sure that nowt awkward should happen to him | O |
| He worked from an office in France | N |
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| He claimed to be one of the Princes | P |
| As were smothered to death in the Tower | F |
| His tale was that only his brother was killed | Q |
| And that he had escaped the seas ower | F |
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| Henry knew the appeal of the Princes | P |
| Was a strong one for Perkin to make | L |
| And he reckoned he'd best have a chat with the lad | R |
| And find out the least he would take | L |
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| In reply to his kind invitation | S |
| Perkin said he'd he happy to call | T |
| But he'd bring his own escort of ten thousand men | U |
| And a hundred pipers an' all | T |
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| This reply put the King in a passion | S |
| He swore as he'd stop Perkin's fun | S |
| Then he offered a fortune per annum to him | O |
| As could tell him how his could be done | S |
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| Then up spoke the bold Lambert Simne | S |
| The King's private scullion he were | F |
| He said Just one word in thy ear 'ole O King | L |
| I've a plan as will stop all this 'ere | F |
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| Then he took the King up in a corner | F |
| Where no one could hear what they said | V |
| He hadn't got far when King started to laff | W |
| And he laffed till he had to he bled | V |
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| T 'were a plan to anticipate Perkin | S |
| By getting in first with these tales | X |
| Start another rebellion before he arrived | Y |
| And take the wind out of his sails | X |
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| And so Lambert Simnel's rebellion | S |
| Made its fateful debut in the North | Z |
| Experts disagree who he made out to be | A2 |
| John the Second or Richard the Fourth | Z |
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| T 'was surprising how many believed him | O |
| They flocked to his flag like one man | S |
| For in them days the folk would do owt for a change | B2 |
| And their motto was San fairy ann | S |
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| It were quite a success this rebellion | S |
| Till t'were routed by Henry at Stoke | L |
| And Lambert were taken and made to confess | C2 |
| That his parents was working class folk | L |
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| The public forgave this deception | S |
| The thing that made them proper mad | R |
| Was a twopenny increase on every one's rates | D2 |
| To pay for the fun they had had | R |
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| And so when Peter Warbeck came over | F |
| Expecting his praise to be sung | L |
| He was greeted defeated escheated unseated | E2 |
| Maltreated and finally hung | L |
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| And the Baron went back to his castle | F2 |
| The Peasant went back to his herd | G |
| Lambert Simnel went back to his scullion's job | G2 |
| Because Henry went back on his word | G |
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