A Radical War Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFEFE GEGEDEDE HEHEBEBE IJIJBBBB KEKELMLM NENEEOEM NENEBBBB BBBBPQPR IJIJSESE| Awake arise the hour is come | A |
| For rows and revolutions | B |
| There's no receipt like pike and drum | A |
| For crazy constitutions | B |
| Close close the shop Break break the loom | C |
| Desert your hearths and furrows | B |
| And throng in arms to seal the doom | C |
| Of England's rotten boroughs | B |
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| We'll stretch that tort'ring Castlereagh | D |
| On his own Dublin rack sir | E |
| We'll drown the King in Eau de vie | D |
| The Laureate in his sack sir | E |
| Old Eldon and his sordid hag | F |
| In molten gold we'll smother | E |
| And stifle in his own green bag | F |
| The Doctor and his brother | E |
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| In chains we'll hang in fair Guildhall | G |
| The City's famed recorder | E |
| And next on proud St Stephen's fall | G |
| Though Wynne should squeak to order | E |
| In vain our tyrants then shall try | D |
| To 'scape our martial law sir | E |
| In vain the trembling Speaker cry | D |
| That Strangers must withdraw sir | E |
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| Copley to hang offends no text | H |
| A rat is not a man sir | E |
| With schedules and with tax bills next | H |
| We'll bury pious Van sir | E |
| The slaves who loved the income Tax | B |
| We'll crush by scores like mites sir | E |
| And him the wretch who freed the blacks | B |
| And more enslaved the whites sir | E |
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| The peer shall dangle from his gate | I |
| The bishop from his steeple | J |
| Till all recanting own the State | I |
| Means nothing but the People | J |
| We'll fix the church's revenues | B |
| On Apostolic basis | B |
| One coat one scrip one pair of shoes | B |
| Shall pay their strange grimaces | B |
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| We'll strap the bar's deluding train | K |
| In their own darling halter | E |
| And with his big church bible brain | K |
| The parson at the altar | E |
| Hail glorious hour when fair Reform | L |
| Shall bless our longing nation | M |
| And Hunt receive commands to form | L |
| A new administration | M |
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| Carlisle shall sit enthroned where sat | N |
| Our Cranmer and our Secker | E |
| And Watson show his snow white hat | N |
| In England's rich Exchequer | E |
| The breast of Thistlewood shall wear | E |
| Our Wellesley's star and sash man | O |
| And many a mausoleum fair | E |
| Shall rise to honest Cashman | M |
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| Then then beneath the nine tailed cat | N |
| Shall they who used it writhe sir | E |
| And curates lean and rectors fat | N |
| Shall dig the ground they tithe sir | E |
| Down with your Bayleys and your Bests | B |
| Your Giffords and your Gurneys | B |
| We'll clear the island of the pests | B |
| Which mortals name attorneys | B |
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| Down with your sheriffs and your mayors | B |
| Your registrars and proctors | B |
| We'll live without the lawyer's cares | B |
| And die without the doctor's | B |
| No discontented fair shall pout | P |
| To see her spouse so stupid | Q |
| We'll tread the torch of Hymen out | P |
| And live content with Cupid | R |
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| Then when the high born and the great | I |
| Are humbled to our level | J |
| On all the wealth of Church and State | I |
| Like aldermen we'll revel | J |
| We'll live when hushed the battle's din | S |
| In smoking and in cards sir | E |
| In drinking unexcised gin | S |
| And wooing fair Poissardes sir | E |
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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