Ballades Iv - Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBE ABABBFBE ACABBBBB G BBBB| SAY fair maids maying | A |
| In gardens green | B |
| In deep dells straying | A |
| What end hath been | C |
| Two Mays between | B |
| Of the flowers that shone | D |
| And your own sweet queen | B |
| They are dead and gone | E |
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| Say grave priests praying | A |
| In dule and teen | B |
| From cells decaying | A |
| What have ye seen | B |
| Of the proud and mean | B |
| Of Judas and John | F |
| Of the foul and clean | B |
| They are dead and gone | E |
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| Say kings arraying | A |
| Loud wars to win | C |
| Of your manslaying | A |
| What gain ye glean | B |
| They are fierce and keen | B |
| But they fall anon | B |
| On the sword that lean | B |
| They are dead and gone | B |
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| ENVOY | G |
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| Through the mad world s scene | B |
| We are drifting on | B |
| To this tune I ween | B |
| They are dead and gone | B |
Andrew Lang
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