The Key-board Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHDEFE JBKBDELE MNKNDEFE| Five and thirty black slaves | A |
| Half a hundred white | B |
| All their duty but to sing | C |
| For their Queen's delight | B |
| Now with throats of thunder | D |
| Now with dulcet lips | E |
| While she rules them royally | F |
| With her finger tips | E |
| - | |
| When she quits her palace | G |
| All the slaves are dumb | H |
| Dumb with dolour till the Queen | I |
| Back to Court is come | H |
| Dumb the throats of thunder | D |
| Dumb the dulcet lips | E |
| Lacking all the sovereignty | F |
| Of her finger tips | E |
| - | |
| Dusky slaves and pallid | J |
| Ebon slaves and white | B |
| When the Queen was on her throne | K |
| How you sang to night | B |
| Ah the throats of thunder | D |
| Ah the dulcet lips | E |
| Ah the gracious tyrannies | L |
| Of her finger tips | E |
| - | |
| Silent silent silent | M |
| All your voices now | N |
| Was it then her life alone | K |
| Did your life endow | N |
| Waken throats of thunder | D |
| Waken dulcet lips | E |
| Touched to immortality | F |
| By her finger tips | E |
William Watson
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