Kings Must Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ IKIKLL MNMNCCC| Alphonso Rex who died in Rome | A |
| Was quite a fistful as a kid | B |
| For when I visited his home | A |
| That gorgeous palace in Madrid | B |
| The grinning guide chap showed me where | C |
| He rode his bronco up the stair | C |
| - | |
| That stairway grand of marbled might | D |
| The most majestic in the land | E |
| In statured splendour flight on flight | D |
| He urged his steed with whip in hand | E |
| No lackey could restrain him for | F |
| He gained the gilded corridor | G |
| - | |
| He burst into the Royal suite | H |
| And like a cowboy whooped with glee | I |
| Dodging the charger's flying feet | H |
| The Chamberlain was shocked to see | I |
| Imagine how it must have been a | J |
| Grief to Mother Queen Christina | J |
| - | |
| And so through sheer magnificence | I |
| I roamed from stately room to room | K |
| Yet haunted ever by the sense | I |
| Of tragical dynastic doom | K |
| The walls were wailing Kings must die | L |
| Being plain blokes like you and I | L |
| - | |
| Well here's the moral to my rhyme | M |
| When memories more worthy fade | N |
| We find that whimsically Time | M |
| Conserves some crazy escapade | N |
| So as I left I stood to stare | C |
| With humorous enjoyment where | C |
| Alphonso crashed the Palace stair | C |
Robert Service
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