A Health To The Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCCEC FCFCCCCECGGHHIJKKLLC EC L MNNOPLLLLCEC Q RRS LLTLELLUUVVTULWLWLLU LUABCDDCCECCEC| While the thistle bears | A |
| Spears | B |
| And the shamrock is green | C |
| And the English rose | D |
| Blows | D |
| A health to the Queen | C |
| A health to the Queen a health to the Queen | C |
| Fill high boys drain dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
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| The thistle bears spears round its blossom | F |
| Round its blossom the shamrock is green | C |
| The rose grows and glows round the rose in its bosom | F |
| We stand sword in hand round the Queen | C |
| Our glory is green round the Queen | C |
| We close round the rose round the Queen | C |
| The Queen boys the Queen a health to the Queen | C |
| Fill high boys drain dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
| Last post I'd a note from that old aunt of mine | G |
| 'T was meant for a hook but she called it a line | G |
| She says I don't know why we're going to fight | H |
| She's sure I don't know and I'm sure she's quite right | H |
| She swears I haven't looked at one sole protocol | I |
| Tantara tantara I haven't 'pon my soul | J |
| Soho blow trumpeter | K |
| Trumpeter trumpeter | K |
| Soho blow trumpeter onward's the cry | L |
| Fall tyrants fall the devil care why | L |
| A health to the Queen a health to the Queen | C |
| Fill high boys drain dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
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| My granny came down 'pour vous voir mon barbare ' | - |
| She brought in her pocket a map du Tartare | L |
| Drawn up so she vowed 'par un homme ah si bon ' | - |
| With a plan for campaigning old Hal en haut ton | M |
| With here you may trick him and here you may prick him | N |
| And here if you do it en roi you may lick him | N |
| But there he is sacred and yonder Oh la | O |
| He's as dear a sweet soul as your late grandpapa | P |
| Soho blow trumpeter | L |
| Trumpeter trumpeter | L |
| Blow the charge trumpeter blare boy blare | L |
| Fall tyrants fall the devil care where | L |
| A health to the Queen a health to the Queen | C |
| Fill high boys drain dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
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| My cousin the Yankee last night did his best | Q |
| To prove 'the Czar bless you's no worse than the rest ' | - |
| We wheeled the decanters out on to the lawn | R |
| And he argued and spat in a circle till dawn | R |
| Quoth I 'If the game's half as thick as you say | S |
| The more need for hounds lad Hunt's up Harkaway ' | - |
| Soho blow trumpeter | L |
| Trumpeter trumpeter | L |
| Tally ho trumpeter over the ditch | T |
| Over the ditch boys the broad ditch at Dover | L |
| Hands slack boys heels back boys | E |
| Yohoicks we're well over | L |
| Soho blow trumpeter blow us to cover | L |
| Blow boy blow | U |
| Berlin or Moscow | U |
| Schoenbrun or Rome | V |
| So Reynard's at home | V |
| The devil care which | T |
| Hark Evans hark Campbell hark Cathcart Halloo | U |
| Heydey harkaway good men and true | L |
| Harkaway to the brook | W |
| You won't land in clover | L |
| Leap and look | W |
| High and dry | L |
| Tantivy full cry | L |
| Full cry up the hill | U |
| Hurrah and it's over | L |
| A burst and a kill | U |
| While the thistle bears | A |
| Spears | B |
| And the shamrock is green | C |
| And the English rose | D |
| Blows | D |
| A health to the Queen | C |
| A health to the Queen a health to the Queen | C |
| Fill high boys drain dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
| The Queen boys the Queen the Queen boys the Queen | C |
| Full cry high and dry boys | E |
| A health to the Queen | C |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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