Ballade Of Middle Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBBB ABABBBBB ABABBBBB C BBBB| Our youth began with tears and sighs | A |
| With seeking what we could not find | B |
| Our verses all were threnodies | A |
| In elegiacs still we whined | B |
| Our ears were deaf our eyes were blind | B |
| We sought and knew not what we sought | B |
| We marvel now we look behind | B |
| Life's more amusing than we thought | B |
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| Oh foolish youth untimely wise | A |
| Oh phantoms of the sickly mind | B |
| What not content with seas and skies | A |
| With rainy clouds and southern wind | B |
| With common cares and faces kind | B |
| With pains and joys each morning brought | B |
| Ah old and worn and tired we find | B |
| Life's more amusing than we thought | B |
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| Though youth turns spectre thin and dies | A |
| To mourn for youth we're not inclined | B |
| We set our souls on salmon flies | A |
| We whistle where we once repined | B |
| Confound the woes of human kind | B |
| By Heaven we're well deceived I wot | B |
| Who hum contented or resigned | B |
| Life's more amusing than we thought | B |
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| ENVOY | C |
| - | |
| O nate mecum worn and lined | B |
| Our faces show but THAT is naught | B |
| Our hearts are young 'neath wrinkled rind | B |
| Life's more amusing than we thought | B |
Andrew Lang
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