Ballade Of The Primitive Jest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDEEDED DEDFEDED DEDEFDED G EDED| What did the dark haired Iberian laugh at before the tall | A |
| blonde Aryan drove him into the corners of Europe | B |
| Brander Matthews | C |
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| I am an ancient Jest | D |
| Palaeolithic man | E |
| In his arboreal nest | D |
| The sparks of fun would fan | E |
| My outline did he plan | E |
| And laughed like one possessed | D |
| 'Twas thus my course began | E |
| I am a Merry Jest | D |
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| I am an early Jest | D |
| Man delved and built and span | E |
| Then wandered South and West | D |
| The peoples Aryan | F |
| I journeyed in their van | E |
| The Semites too confessed | D |
| From Beersheba to Dan | E |
| I am a Merry Jest | D |
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| I am an ancient Jest | D |
| Through all the human clan | E |
| Red black white free oppressed | D |
| Hilarious I ran | E |
| I'm found in Lucian | F |
| In Poggio and the rest | D |
| I'm dear to Moll and Nan | E |
| I am a Merry Jest | D |
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| ENVOY | G |
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| Prince you may storm and ban | E |
| Joe Millers ARE a pest | D |
| Suppress me if you can | E |
| I am a Merry Jest | D |
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