Anglicised Utopia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEEDBBFFGGHIIH FFDJJDKKFFGGHIIH LBDKKDMMNFFGGHIIH| A | |
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| Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses | B |
| Which empties our police courts and abolishes divorces | C |
| Divorce is nearly obsolete in England | D |
| No tolerance we show to undeserving rank and splendour | E |
| For the higher his position is the greater the offender | E |
| That's a maxim that is prevalent in England | D |
| No Peeress at our Drawing Room before the Presence passes | B |
| Who wouldn't be accepted by the lower middle classes | B |
| Each shady dame whatever be her rank is bowed out neatly | F |
| In short this happy country has been Anglicised completely | F |
| It really is surprising | G |
| What a thorough Anglicising | G |
| We've brought about Utopia's quite another land | H |
| In her enterprising movements | I |
| She is England with improvements | I |
| Which we dutifully offer to our mother land | H |
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| Our city we have beautified we've done it willy nilly | F |
| And all that isn't Belgrave Square is Strand and Piccadilly | F |
| They haven't any slummeries in England | D |
| We have solved the labour question with discrimination polished | J |
| So poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished | J |
| They are going to abolish it in England | D |
| The Chamberlain our native stage has purged beyond a question | K |
| Of risky situation and indelicate suggestion | K |
| No piece is tolerated if it's costumed indiscreetly | F |
| In short this happy country has been Anglicised completely | F |
| It really is surprising | G |
| What a thorough Anglicising | G |
| We've brought about Utopia's quite another land | H |
| In her enterprising movements | I |
| She is England with improvements | I |
| Which we dutifully offer to our mother land | H |
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| Our Peerage we've remodelled on an intellectual basis | L |
| Which certainly is rough on our hereditary races | B |
| They are going to remodel it in England | D |
| The Brewers and the Cotton Lords no longer seek admission | K |
| And Literary Merit meets with proper recognition | K |
| As Literary Merit does in England | D |
| Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens | M |
| Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens | M |
| Lord Fildes and Viscount Millais when they come we'll welcome | N |
| sweetly | F |
| And then this happy country will be Anglicised completely | F |
| It really is surprising | G |
| What a thorough Anglicising | G |
| We've brought about Utopia's quite another land | H |
| In her enterprising movements | I |
| She is England with improvements | I |
| Which we dutifully offer to our mother land | H |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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