Marie Antoinette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CCECFGFG CCCCCHCH| They told to Marie Antoinette | A |
| The beggers at your gate | B |
| Have eyes too sad for tears to wet | A |
| And for your pity wait | B |
| But Marie only laughed and said | C |
| My heart they will not ache | D |
| If people starve for want of bread | C |
| Let them eat cake | D |
| - | |
| The Court re echoed her bon mot | C |
| It rang around the land | C |
| Till masses wakened from their woe | E |
| With scyth and pick in hand | C |
| It took a careless callous phrase | F |
| To rouse the folk forlorn | G |
| A million roared the Marseillaise | F |
| Freedom was born | G |
| - | |
| And so to Marie Antoinette | C |
| Let's pay a tribute due | C |
| Humanity owes her a debt | C |
| Ironical it's true | C |
| She sparked world revolution red | C |
| And as with glee they bore | H |
| Upon a pike her lovely head | C |
| Her curls dripped gore | H |
Robert William Service
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