Ballades I - To Theocritus, In Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD ABABBDBD ABABBDBD E BDBD| AH leave the smoke the wealth the roar | A |
| Of London leave the bustling street | B |
| For still by the Sicilian shore | A |
| The murmur of the Muse is sweet | B |
| Still still the suns of summer greet | B |
| The mountain grave of Helike | C |
| And shepherds still their songs repeat | B |
| Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea | D |
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| What though they worship Pan no more | A |
| That guarded once the shepherd s seat | B |
| They chatter of their rustic lore | A |
| They watch the wind among the wheat | B |
| Cicalas chirp the young lambs bleat | B |
| Where whispers pine to cypress tree | D |
| They count the waves that idly beat | B |
| Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea | D |
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| Theocritus thou canst restore | A |
| The pleasant years and over fleet | B |
| With thee we live as men of yore | A |
| We rest where running waters meet | B |
| And then we turn unwilling feet | B |
| And seek the world so must it be | D |
| We may not linger in the heat | B |
| Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea | D |
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| ENVOY | E |
| - | |
| Master when rain and snow and sleet | B |
| And northern winds are wild to thee | D |
| We come we rest in thy retreat | B |
| Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea | D |
Andrew Lang
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