Ballades Iii - Of Blue China Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABAABABBABA ABABBABA C BABA| THERE S a joy without canker or cark | A |
| There s a pleasure eternally new | B |
| T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark | A |
| Of china that s ancient and blue | B |
| Unchipp d all the centuries through | B |
| It has pass d since the chime of it rang | A |
| And they fashion d it figure and hue | B |
| In the reign of the Emperor Hwang | A |
| These dragons their tails you remark | A |
| Into bunches of gillyflowers grew | B |
| When Noah came out of the ark | A |
| Did these lie in wait for his crew | B |
| They snorted they snapp d and they slew | B |
| They were mighty of fin and of fang | A |
| And their portraits Celestials drew | B |
| In the reign of the Emperor Hwang | A |
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| Here s a pot with a cot in a park | A |
| In a park where the peach blossoms blew | B |
| Where the lovers eloped in the dark | A |
| Lived died and were changed into two | B |
| Bright birds that eternally flew | B |
| Through the boughs of the may as they sang | A |
| T is a tale was undoubtedly true | B |
| In the reign of the Emperor Hwang | A |
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| ENVOY | C |
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| Come snarl at my ecstasies do | B |
| Kind critic your tongue has a tang | A |
| But a sage never heeded a shrew | B |
| In the reign of the Emperor Hwang | A |
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