The Late Monarch Lies in St Giles

Douglas Glendinning 1957 (The Borders)



The Queen is deed.
May she rest her heed, in peace.

The new King and his brazen strumpet crumpet came here on a plane.
He hung aboot abit, talked some shit, and went away again.

Delight for the purists.
A bonus for the tourists.
And a reminder that nothing else has changed.

About this poem

Observations on the events in Edinburgh 12/09/2022. In dialect.

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Written on September 12, 2022

Submitted by douglasglendinning on September 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XX XXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 277
Words 60
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3

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