Sovereign Woman. A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEFFFFGGHH IFJFKKLL MNMNJJOO| The dance was o'er yet still in dreams | A |
| That fairy scene went on | B |
| Like clouds still flusht with daylight gleams | A |
| Tho' day itself is gone | C |
| And gracefully to music's sound | D |
| The same bright nymphs were gliding round | D |
| While thou the Queen of all wert there | E |
| The Fairest still where all were fair | E |
| The dream then changed in halls of state | F |
| I saw thee high enthroned | F |
| While ranged around the wise the great | F |
| In thee their mistress owned | F |
| And still the same thy gentle sway | G |
| O'er willing subjects won its way | G |
| Till all confest the Right Divine | H |
| To rule o'er man was only thine | H |
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| But lo the scene now changed again | I |
| And borne on plumed steed | F |
| I saw thee o'er the battle plain | J |
| Our land's defenders lead | F |
| And stronger in thy beauty's charms | K |
| Than man with countless hosts in arms | K |
| Thy voice like music cheered the Free | L |
| Thy very smile was victory | L |
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| Nor reign such queens on thrones alone | M |
| In cot and court the same | N |
| Wherever woman's smile is known | M |
| Victoria's still her name | N |
| For tho' she almost blush to reign | J |
| Tho' Love's own flowerets wreath the chain | J |
| Disguise our bondage as we will | O |
| 'Tis woman woman rules us still | O |
Thomas Moore
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