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 dayA
Many who once had shone as monarchs layA
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Edward the Pious and two Edwards moreB
The second Richard Henrys three or fourB
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That is to say those who were called the ThirdC
Fifth Seventh and Eighth the much self widoweredC
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And James the Scot and near him Charles the SecondC
And too the second George could there be reckonedC
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Of women Mary and Queen ElizabethD
And Anne all silent in a musing deathE
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And Williams Mary and Mary Queen of ScotsF
And consort queens whose names oblivion blotsF
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And several more whose chronicle one seesG
Adorning ancient royal pedigreesG
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Now as they drowsed on freed from Life's old thrallH
And heedless save of things exceptionalI
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Said one 'What means this throbbing thudding soundC
That reaches to us here from overgroundC
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'A sound of chisels augers planes and sawsJ
Infringing all ecclesiastic lawsJ
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'And these tons weight of timber on us pressedC
Unfelt here since we entered into restC
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'Surely at least to us being corpses royalI
A meet repose is owing by the loyalI
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' Perhaps a scaffold ' Mary Stuart sighedC
'If such still be It was that way I died '-
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' Ods Far more like ' said he the many wivedC
'That for a wedding 'tis this works contrivedC
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'Ha ha I never would bow down to RimmonK
But I had a rare time with those six women '-
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'Not all at once ' gasped he who loved confessionK
'Nay nay ' said Hal 'That would have been transgression '-
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They build a catafalque here black and tallH
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 knowK
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'Clearly 'tis for some crowning here in stateC
As they crowned us at our long bygone dateC
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'Though we'd no such a power of carpentryL
But let the ancient architecture beL
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'If I were up there where the parsons sitC
In one of my gold robes I'd see to it '-
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'But you are not ' Charles chuckled 'You are hereM
And never will know the sun again my dear '-
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'Yea ' whispered those whom no one had addressedC
'With slow sad march amid a folk distressedC
We were brought here to take our dusty restC
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'And here alas in darkness laid belowK
We'll wait and listen and endure the showK
Clamour dogs kingship afterwards not so '-

Thomas Hardy



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