The National Anthem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGFGGGHBID JKGKLLMNMNOOLBLD| A monarch is pestered with cares | A |
| Though no doubt he can often trepan them | B |
| But one comes in a shape he can never escape | C |
| The implacable National Anthem | D |
| Though for quiet and rest he may yearn | E |
| It pursues him at every turn | E |
| No chance of forsaking | F |
| Its ROCOCO numbers | G |
| They haunt him when waking | F |
| They poison his slumbers | G |
| Like the Banbury Lady whom every one knows | G |
| He's cursed with its music wherever he goes | G |
| Though its words but imperfectly rhyme | H |
| And the devil himself couldn't scan them | B |
| With composure polite he endures day and night | I |
| That illiterate National Anthem | D |
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| It serves a good purpose I own | J |
| Its strains are devout and impressive | K |
| Its heart stirring notes raise a lump in our throats | G |
| As we burn with devotion excessive | K |
| But the King who's been bored by that song | L |
| From his cradle each day all day long | L |
| Who's heard it loud shouted | M |
| By throats operatic | N |
| And loyally spouted | M |
| By courtiers emphatic | N |
| By soldier by sailor by drum and by fife | O |
| Small blame if he thinks it the plague of his life | O |
| While his subjects sing loudly and long | L |
| Their King who would willingly ban them | B |
| Sits worry disguising anathematising | L |
| That Bogie the National Anthem | D |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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