Ballade Of Literary Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABABBABA ABABBABA ABABBABA C BABA| All these for Fourpence | A |
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| Oh where are the endless Romances | A |
| Our grandmothers used to adore | B |
| The Knights with their helms and their lances | A |
| Their shields and the favours they wore | B |
| And the Monks with their magical lore | B |
| They have passed to Oblivion and Nox | A |
| They have fled to the shadowy shore | B |
| They are all in the Fourpenny Box | A |
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| And where the poetical fancies | A |
| Our fathers rejoiced in of yore | B |
| The lyric's melodious expanses | A |
| The Epics in cantos a score | B |
| They have been and are not no more | B |
| Shall the shepherds drive silvery flocks | A |
| Nor the ladies their languors deplore | B |
| They are all in the Fourpenny Box | A |
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| And the Music The songs and the dances | A |
| The tunes that Time may not restore | B |
| And the tomes where Divinity prances | A |
| And the pamphlets where Heretics roar | B |
| They have ceased to be even a bore | B |
| The Divine and the Sceptic who mocks | A |
| They are cropped they are foxed to the core | B |
| They are all in the Fourpenny Box | A |
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| ENVOY | C |
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| Suns beat on them tempests downpour | B |
| On the chest without cover or locks | A |
| Where they lie by the Bookseller's door | B |
| They are ALL in the Fourpenny Box | A |
Andrew Lang
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