Elizabethan Protestation - (Experimental style)

Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy.

Elizabethan Protestation - (Experimental style)

Despots do not caterwauling

f'r the downtrodden

nay lacrimations do I detecteth

 

f'r stone hearts

within girdl'd breasts

reject all subjugat'd s'rry

 

cometh the revolution

retribution shall revenge

the oppression of the meek

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2019

Author's Note

Despots do not cry
For the downtrodden
No lacrimations do I detect

For stone hearts
Within girdled breasts
Reject all subjugated sorry

Come the revolution
Retribution shall avenge
The oppression of the meek

Reviews

[Gerald Parker]

Sorry - grammar note -about archaic English - 'doth' is third person singular and cannot be used after the plural 'despots' - use 'do.' Nor can you have 'doth I.' same applies to 'rejecteth' - it is third person singular and cannot be used with 'stone hearts.' Use 'reject.''Shalt' is second person singular and cannot be used after 'retribution. 'Shall' is the correct form.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Duly noted Gerald - Just a bit of fun really, but I must do more research in future - cheers... :-)

[Gerald Parker]

Sorry, I'm always correcting mistakes, life-long habit.
By the way do we have a despot in the UK? Someone we want to line up against a wall?

[Phill Oz O'fee]

I applaud constructive reviews - thank you again. By the way; there are a few Tory MP's calling Speaker of the House John Bercow one - bet they would 'line him up'! :-)

[Gerald Parker]

I wasn't thinking of him.

[Beccy]

Come the revolution indeed. Meantime, business as usual in first class.

Keep on flexing. :))

Beccy.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you Beccy - very kind review

[Lyn Anderson]

I knoweth naught flowery incantations. I prefereth the simplest form displayed in thy notation ...

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thanks Lyn - just an experimental piece to flex my little grey cells... Bless …:-)