Ballade Of Dead Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D BCE| Nay tell me now in what strange air | A |
| The Roman Flora dwells to day | B |
| Where Archippiada hides and where | A |
| Beautiful Thais has passed away | B |
| Whence answers Echo afield astray | B |
| By mere or stream around below | C |
| Lovelier she than a woman of clay | B |
| Nay but where is the last year's snow | C |
| - | |
| Where is wise Heloise that care | A |
| Brought on Abeilard and dismay | B |
| All for her love he found a snare | A |
| A maimed poor monk in orders grey | B |
| And where's the Queen who willed to slay | B |
| Buridan that in a sack must go | C |
| Afloat down Seine a perilous way | B |
| Nay but where is the last year's snow | C |
| - | |
| Where's that White Queen a lily rare | A |
| With her sweet song the Siren's lay | B |
| Where's Bertha Broad foot Beatrice fair | A |
| Alys and Ermengarde where are they | B |
| Good Joan whom English did betray | B |
| In Rouen town and burned her No | C |
| Maiden and Queen no man may say | B |
| Nay but where is the last year's snow | C |
| - | |
| ENVOY | D |
| - | |
| Prince all this week thou need'st not pray | B |
| Nor yet this year the thing to know | C |
| One burden answers ever and aye | E |
| 'Nay but where is the last year's snow ' | - |
Andrew Lang
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