The Song Of The Box. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CADA AAAA EAEA FAGA AAAA AAAA HAHA AAAA IAIALet History boast of her Romans and Spartans | A |
And tell how they stood against tyranny's shock | B |
They were all I confess in my eye Betty Martins | A |
Compared to George Grote and his wonderful Box | A |
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Ask where Liberty now has her seat Oh it isn't | C |
By Delaware's banks or on Switzerland's rocks | A |
Like an imp in some conjuror's bottle imprisoned | D |
She's slyly shut up in Grote's wonderful Box | A |
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How snug 'stead of floating thro' ether's dominions | A |
Blown this way and that by the populi vox | A |
To fold thus in silence her sinecure pinions | A |
And go fast asleep in Grote's wonderful Box | A |
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Time was when free speech was the life breath of freedom | E |
So thought once the Seldens the Hampdens the Lockes | A |
But mute be our troops when to ambush we lead 'em | E |
For Mum is the word with us Knights of the Box | A |
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Pure exquisite Box no corruption can soil it | F |
There's Otto of Rose in each breath it unlocks | A |
While Grote is the Betty that serves at the toilet | G |
And breathes all Arabia around from his Box | A |
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'Tis a singular fact that the famed Hugo Grotius | A |
A namesake of Grote's being both of Dutch stocks | A |
Like Grote too a genius profound as precocious | A |
Was also like him much renowned for a Box | A |
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An immortal old clothes box in which the great Grotius | A |
When suffering in prison for views heterodox | A |
Was packt up incog spite of jailers ferocious | A |
And sent to his wife carriage free in a Box | A |
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But the fame of old Hugo now rests on the shelf | H |
Since a rival hath risen that all parallel mocks | A |
That Grotius ingloriously saved but himself | H |
While ours saves the whole British realm by a Box | A |
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And oh when at last even this greatest of Grotes | A |
Must bend to the Power that at every door knocks | A |
May he drop in the urn like his own silent votes | A |
And the tomb of his rest be a large Ballot Box | A |
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While long at his shrine both from county and city | I |
Shall pilgrims triennially gather in flocks | A |
And sing while they whimper the appropriate ditty | I |
Oh breathe not his name let it sleep in the Box | A |
Thomas Moore
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