Ballade Of Dead Cricketers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD ABBBBDBD ABADBEBD F BDBD| Ah where be Beldham now and Brett | A |
| Barker and Hogsflesh where be they | B |
| Brett of all bowlers fleetest yet | A |
| That drove the bails in disarray | B |
| And Small that would like Orpheus play | B |
| Till wild bulls followed his minstrelsy | C |
| Booker and Quiddington and May | B |
| Beneath the daisies there they lie | D |
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| And where is Lambert that would get | A |
| The stumps with balls that broke astray | B |
| And Mann whose balls would ricochet | B |
| In almost an unholy way | B |
| So do baseballers pitch to day | B |
| George Lear that seldom let a bye | D |
| And Richard Nyren grave and gray | B |
| Beneath the daisies there they lie | D |
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| Tom Sueter too the ladies' pet | A |
| Brown that would bravest hearts affray | B |
| Walker invincible when set | A |
| Tom of the spider limbs and splay | D |
| Think ye that we could match them pray | B |
| These heroes of Broad halfpenny | E |
| With Buck to hit and Small to stay | B |
| Beneath the daisies there they lie | D |
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| ENVOY | F |
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| Prince canst thou moralise the lay | B |
| How all things change below the sky | D |
| Of Fry and Grace shall mortals say | B |
| Beneath the daisies there they lie | D |
Andrew Lang
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