The House Of Peers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABAA CDEFDAA AGHHGAA| When Britain really ruled the waves | A |
| In good Queen Bess's time | B |
| The House of Peers made no pretence | A |
| To intellectual eminence | A |
| Or scholarship sublime | B |
| Yet Britain won her proudest bays | A |
| In good Queen Bess's glorious days | A |
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| When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte | C |
| As every child can tell | D |
| The House of Peers throughout the war | E |
| Did nothing in particular | F |
| And did it very well | D |
| Yet Britain set the world ablaze | A |
| In good King George's glorious days | A |
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| And while the House of Peers withholds | A |
| Its legislative hand | G |
| And noble statesmen do not itch | H |
| To interfere with matters which | H |
| They do not understand | G |
| As bright will shine Great Britain's rays | A |
| As in King George's glorious days | A |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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