The Working Monarch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDEFFGDDHHFC IFFIBBHAAHAAHBBH FFJKKJLLHHFFMFFMNN KAAKAAKBBK| Rising early in the morning | A |
| We proceed to light the fire | B |
| Then our Majesty adorning | A |
| In its work a day attire | B |
| We embark without delay | C |
| On the duties of the day | C |
| - | |
| First we polish off some batches | D |
| Of political despatches | D |
| And foreign politicians circumvent | E |
| Then if business isn't heavy | F |
| We may hold a Royal LEVEE | F |
| Or ratify some Acts of Parliament | G |
| Then we probably review the household troops | D |
| With the usual Shalloo humps and Shalloo hoops | D |
| Or receive with ceremonial and state | H |
| An interesting Eastern Potentate | H |
| After that we generally | F |
| Go and dress our private VALET | C |
| - | |
| It's a rather nervous duty he a touchy little man | I |
| Write some letters literary | F |
| For our private secretary | F |
| He is shaky in his spelling so we help him if we can | I |
| Then in view of cravings inner | B |
| We go down and order dinner | B |
| Or we polish the Regalia and the Coronation Plate | H |
| Spend an hour in titivating | A |
| All our Gentlemen in Waiting | A |
| Or we run on little errands for the Ministers of State | H |
| Oh philosophers may sing | A |
| Of the troubles of a King | A |
| Yet the duties are delightful and the privileges great | H |
| But the privilege and pleasure | B |
| That we treasure beyond measure | B |
| Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State | H |
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| After luncheon making merry | F |
| On a bun and glass of sherry | F |
| If we've nothing in particular to do | J |
| We may make a Proclamation | K |
| Or receive a Deputation | K |
| Then we possibly create a Peer or two | J |
| Then we help a fellow creature on his path | L |
| With the Garter or the Thistle or the Bath | L |
| Or we dress and toddle off in semi State | H |
| To a festival a function or a FETE | H |
| Then we go and stand as sentry | F |
| At the Palace private entry | F |
| Marching hither marching thither up and down and to and fro | M |
| While the warrior on duty | F |
| Goes in search of beer and beauty | F |
| And it generally happens that he hasn't far to go | M |
| He relieves us if he's able | N |
| Just in time to lay the table | N |
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| Then we dine and serve the coffee and at half past twelve or one | K |
| With a pleasure that's emphatic | A |
| Then we seek our little attic | A |
| With the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done | K |
| Oh philosophers may sing | A |
| Of the troubles of a King | A |
| But of pleasures there are many and of troubles there are none | K |
| And the culminating pleasure | B |
| That we treasure beyond measure | B |
| Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done | K |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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