Ballade Of The Book-man's Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD BBBBBCBD BBBEBCBD F GCBD| There is a Heaven or here or there | A |
| A Heaven there is for me and you | B |
| Where bargains meet for purses spare | A |
| Like ours are not so far and few | B |
| Thuanus' bees go humming through | B |
| The learned groves 'neath rainless skies | C |
| O'er volumes old and volumes new | B |
| Within that Book man's Paradise | D |
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| There treasures bound for Longepierre | B |
| Keep brilliant their morocco blue | B |
| There Hookes' Amanda is not rare | B |
| Nor early tracts upon Peru | B |
| Racine is common as Rotrou | B |
| No Shakespeare Quarto search defies | C |
| And Caxtons grow as blossoms grew | B |
| Within that Book man's Paradise | D |
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| There's Eve not our first mother fair | B |
| But Clovis Eve a binder true | B |
| Thither does Bauzonnet repair | B |
| Derome Le Gascon Padeloup | E |
| But never come the cropping crew | B |
| That dock a volume's honest size | C |
| Nor they that letter backs askew | B |
| Within that Book man's Paradise | D |
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| Envoy | F |
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| Friend do not Heber and De Thou | G |
| And Scott and Southey kind and wise | C |
| La chasse au bouquin still pursue | B |
| Within that Book man's Paradise | D |
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