Ode To John Bradbury (the Notes For L1 And 10s Are Signed By John Bradbury) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACCDEEDFGFG HIHIJKAAKJAA AAAAAAAA LMNOLMPPAAAA AQQARR| When the Red KAISER swoll'n with impious pride | A |
| And stuffed with texts to serve his instant need | B |
| Took Shame for partner and Disgrace for guide | A |
| Earned to the full the hateful traitor's meed | A |
| And bade his hordes advance | C |
| Through Belgium's cities towards the fields of France | C |
| And when at last our patient island race | D |
| By the attempted wrong | E |
| Made fierce and strong | E |
| Flung back the challenge in the braggart's face | D |
| Oh then while martial music filled the air | F |
| Clarion and fife and bagpipe and the drum | G |
| Calling to men to muster march and dare | F |
| Oh then thy day JOHN BRADBURY was come | G |
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| JOHN BRADBURY the Muse shall fill my strain | H |
| To sing thy praises thou hadst spent thy time | I |
| Not idly nor hadst lived thy life in vain | H |
| Unfitted for the guerdon of my rhyme | I |
| For lo the Funds went sudden crashing down | J |
| And men grew pale with monetary fear | K |
| And in the toppling mart | A |
| The stoutest heart | A |
| Melted and fortunes seemed to disappear | K |
| And some forgetting their austere renown | J |
| Went mad and sold | A |
| Whate'er they could and wildly called for Gold | A |
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| Since through no fault of ours the die was cast | A |
| We shall go forth and fight | A |
| In death's despite | A |
| And shall return victorious at the last | A |
| But how ah how they said | A |
| Shall we and ours be fed | A |
| And clothed and housed from dreary day to day | A |
| If while our hearths grow cold we have no coin to pay | A |
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| Then thou where no gold was and little store | L |
| Of silver didst appear and wave thy pen | M |
| And with thy signature | N |
| Make things secure | O |
| Bidding us all pluck up our hearts once more | L |
| And face our foolish fancied fears like men | M |
| I give you notes you said of different kinds | P |
| To ease your anxious minds | P |
| The one is black and shall be fairly found | A |
| Equal in value to a golden pound | A |
| The other mark its healthy scarlet print | A |
| Is worth a full half sovereign from the Mint | A |
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| Thus didst thou speak at least I think thou didst | A |
| And lo the murmurs fell | Q |
| And all things went right well | Q |
| While thy notes fluttered in our happy midst | A |
| Therefore our grateful hearts go forth to thee | R |
| Our British note provider brave JOHN BRADBURY | R |
R. C. Lehmann
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