Ballade Of The Optimist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC BDBC| Heed not the folk who sing or say | A |
| In sonnet sad or sermon chill | B |
| Alas alack and well a day | A |
| This round world's but a bitter pill | B |
| Poor porcupines of fretful quill | B |
| Sometimes we quarrel with our lot | C |
| We too are sad and careful still | B |
| We'd rather be alive than not | C |
| - | |
| What though we wish the cats at play | A |
| Would some one else's garden till | B |
| Though Sophonisba drop the tray | A |
| And all our worshipped Worcester spill | B |
| Though neighbours practise loud and shrill | B |
| Though May be cold and June be hot | C |
| Though April freeze and August grill | B |
| We'd rather be alive than not | C |
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| And sometimes on a summer's day | A |
| To self and every mortal ill | B |
| We give the slip we steal away | A |
| To walk beside some sedgy rill | B |
| The darkening years the cares that kill | B |
| A little while are well forgot | C |
| When deep in broom upon the hill | B |
| We'd rather be alive than not | C |
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| Pistol with oaths didst thou fulfil | B |
| The task thy braggart tongue begot | D |
| We eat our leek with better will | B |
| We'd rather be alive than not | C |
Andrew Lang
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