If I Were King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCB ABAD ABABAD| If I were king my pipe should be premier | A |
| The skies of time and chance are seldom clear | A |
| We would inform them all with bland blue weather | B |
| Delight alone would need to shed a tear | C |
| For dream and deed should war no more together | B |
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| Art should aspire yet ugliness be dear | A |
| Beauty the shaft should speed with wit for feather | B |
| And love sweet love should never fall to sere | A |
| If I were king | D |
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| But politics should find no harbour near | A |
| The Philistine should fear to slip his tether | B |
| Tobacco should be duty free and beer | A |
| In fact in room of this the age of leather | B |
| An age of gold all radiant should appear | A |
| If I were king | D |
William Ernest Henley
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