A Summary History Of Lord Clive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGAA EDHH IIHH JJKK LLMM NNOP BBQR SSTT KKUC UCSS VBSS WWXX| About a hundred and fifty years ago | A |
| History relates it happened so | A |
| A big ship sailed from the shores of Britain | B |
| Bound for India across the raging main | C |
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| And many of the passengers did cry and moan | D |
| As they took the last look of their old home | E |
| Which they were fast leaving far behind | F |
| And which some of them would long bear in mind | F |
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| Among the passengers was a youth about seventeen years old | G |
| Who had been a wild boy at home and very bold | G |
| And by his conduct had filled his parent's hearts with woe | A |
| Because to school he often refused to go | A |
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| And now that he was going so far away from home | E |
| The thought thereof made him sigh and groan | D |
| For he felt very sad and dejected were his looks | H |
| And he often wished he had spent more time at his books | H |
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| And when he arrived in India he searched for work there | I |
| And got to be a clerk in a merchant's office but for it he didn't care | I |
| The only pleasure he found was in reading books | H |
| And while doing so sad and forlorn were his looks | H |
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| One day while feeling unhappy he fired a pistol at his own head | J |
| Expecting that he would kill himself dead | J |
| But the pistol wouldn't go off although he tried every plan | K |
| And he felt sorry and resolved to become a better man | K |
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| So Clive left his desk and became a soldier brave | L |
| And soon rose to be a captain and manfully did behave | L |
| For he beat the French in every battle | M |
| After all their foolish talk and prattle | M |
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| Then he thought he would take a voyage home to his friends | N |
| And for his bad behaviour towards them he would make some amends | N |
| For he hadn't seen them for many years | O |
| And when he thought of them he shed briny tears | P |
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| And when he arrived in London | B |
| The people after him in crowds did run | B |
| And they flocked to see him every minute | Q |
| Because they thought him the most famous man in it | R |
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| And all the greatest people in the land | S |
| Were proud to shake him by the hand | S |
| And they gave him a beautiful sword because he had fought so well | T |
| And of his bravery the people to each other did tell | T |
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| And when his own friends saw him they to him ran | K |
| And they hardly knew him he looked so noble a man | K |
| And his parents felt o'erjoyed when they saw him home again | U |
| And when he left his parents again for India it caused them great pain | C |
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| But it was a good thing Clive returned to India again | U |
| Because a wicked prince in his territory wouldn't allow the british to remain | C |
| And he resolved to drive them off his land | S |
| And marched upon them boldly with thousands of his band | S |
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| But the bad prince trembled when he heard that Clice had come | V |
| Because the British at the charge of the bayonet made his army run | B |
| And the bad prince was killed by one of his own band | S |
| And the British fortunately got all his land | S |
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| And nearly all India now belongs to this country | W |
| Which has been captured by land and by sea | W |
| By some of the greatest men that ever did live | X |
| But the greatest of them all was Robert Clive | X |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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