Ballade Of Roulette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED AEAEEDED AEAEEDED F EDED| This life one was thinking to day | A |
| In the midst of a medley of fancies | B |
| Is a game and the board where we play | A |
| Green earth with her poppies and pansies | B |
| Let manque be faded romances | C |
| Be passe remorse and regret | D |
| Hearts dance with the wheel as it dances | E |
| The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette | D |
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| The lover will stake as he may | A |
| His heart on his Peggies and Nancies | E |
| The girl has her beauty to lay | A |
| The saint has his prayers and his trances | E |
| The poet bets endless expanses | E |
| In Dreamland the scamp has his debt | D |
| How they gaze at the wheel as it glances | E |
| The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette | D |
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| The Kaiser will stake his array | A |
| Of sabres of Krupps and of lances | E |
| An Englishman punts with his pay | A |
| And glory the jeton of France is | E |
| Your artists or Whistlers or Vances | E |
| Have voices or colours to bet | D |
| Will you moan that its motion askance is | E |
| The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette | D |
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| ENVOY | F |
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| The prize that the pleasure enhances | E |
| The prize is at last to forget | D |
| The changes the chops and the chances | E |
| The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette | D |
Andrew Lang
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