The Coronation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC CC DE FF GG HI CC JJ CC II C CC K K H K CC LL C M CCC KK| At Westminster hid from the light of day | A |
| Many who once had shone as monarchs lay | A |
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| Edward the Pious and two Edwards more | B |
| The second Richard Henrys three or four | B |
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| That is to say those who were called the Third | C |
| Fifth Seventh and Eighth the much self widowered | C |
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| And James the Scot and near him Charles the Second | C |
| And too the second George could there be reckoned | C |
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| Of women Mary and Queen Elizabeth | D |
| And Anne all silent in a musing death | E |
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| And Williams Mary and Mary Queen of Scots | F |
| And consort queens whose names oblivion blots | F |
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| And several more whose chronicle one sees | G |
| Adorning ancient royal pedigrees | G |
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| Now as they drowsed on freed from Life's old thrall | H |
| And heedless save of things exceptional | I |
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| Said one 'What means this throbbing thudding sound | C |
| That reaches to us here from overground | C |
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| 'A sound of chisels augers planes and saws | J |
| Infringing all ecclesiastic laws | J |
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| 'And these tons weight of timber on us pressed | C |
| Unfelt here since we entered into rest | C |
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| 'Surely at least to us being corpses royal | I |
| A meet repose is owing by the loyal | I |
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| ' Perhaps a scaffold ' Mary Stuart sighed | C |
| 'If such still be It was that way I died ' | - |
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| ' Ods Far more like ' said he the many wived | C |
| 'That for a wedding 'tis this works contrived | C |
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| 'Ha ha I never would bow down to Rimmon | K |
| But I had a rare time with those six women ' | - |
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| 'Not all at once ' gasped he who loved confession | K |
| 'Nay nay ' said Hal 'That would have been transgression ' | - |
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| They build a catafalque here black and tall | H |
| Perhaps ' mused Richard 'for some funeral ' | - |
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| And Anne chimed in 'Ah yes it may be so ' | - |
| 'Nay ' squeaked Eliza 'Little you seem to know | K |
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| 'Clearly 'tis for some crowning here in state | C |
| As they crowned us at our long bygone date | C |
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| 'Though we'd no such a power of carpentry | L |
| But let the ancient architecture be | L |
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| 'If I were up there where the parsons sit | C |
| In one of my gold robes I'd see to it ' | - |
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| 'But you are not ' Charles chuckled 'You are here | M |
| And never will know the sun again my dear ' | - |
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| 'Yea ' whispered those whom no one had addressed | C |
| 'With slow sad march amid a folk distressed | C |
| We were brought here to take our dusty rest | C |
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| 'And here alas in darkness laid below | K |
| We'll wait and listen and endure the show | K |
| Clamour dogs kingship afterwards not so ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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