Ballade Of Neglected Merit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC BBBBBCBC D BCBC| I have scribbled in verse and in prose | A |
| I have painted arrangements in greens | B |
| And my name is familiar to those | A |
| Who take in the high class magazines | B |
| I compose I've invented machines | B |
| I have written an Essay on Rhyme | C |
| For my county I played in my teens | B |
| But I am not in Men of the Time | C |
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| I have lived as a chief with the Crows | A |
| I have interviewed Princes and Queens | B |
| I have climbed the Caucasian snows | A |
| I abstain like the ancients from beans | B |
| I've a guess what Pythagoras means | B |
| When he says that to eat them's a crime | C |
| I have lectured upon the Essenes | B |
| But I am not in Men of the Time | C |
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| I've a fancy as morbid as Poe's | B |
| I can tell what is meant by Shebeens | B |
| I have breasted the river that flows | B |
| Through the land of the wild Gadarenes | B |
| I can gossip with Burton on skenes | B |
| I can imitate Irving the Mime | C |
| And my sketches are quainter than Keene's | B |
| But I am not in Men of the Time | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
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| So the tower of mine eminence leans | B |
| Like the Pisan and mud is its lime | C |
| I'm acquainted with Dukes and with Deans | B |
| But I am not in Men of the Time | C |
Andrew Lang
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