The Ballade Of The Subconscious Self Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC BCBC| Who suddenly calls to our ken | A |
| The knowledge that should not be there | B |
| Who charms Mr Stead with the pen | A |
| Of the Prince of the Powers of the Air | B |
| Who makes Physiologists stare | B |
| Is he ghost is he demon or elf | C |
| Who fashions the dream of the fair | B |
| It is just the Subconscious Self | C |
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| He's the ally of Medicine Men | A |
| Who consult the Australian bear | B |
| And 'tis he with his lights on the fen | A |
| Who helps Jack o' Lanthorn to snare | B |
| The peasants of Devon who swear | B |
| Under Commonwealth Stuart or Guelph | C |
| That they never had half such a scare | B |
| It is just the Subconscious Self | C |
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| It is he from his cerebral den | A |
| Who raps upon table and chair | B |
| Who frightens the housemaid and then | A |
| Slinks back like a thief to his lair | B |
| 'Tis the Brownie according to Mair | B |
| Who rattles the pots on the shelf | C |
| But the Psychical sages declare | B |
| It is just the Subconscious Self | C |
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| Prince each of us all is a pair | B |
| The Conscious who labours for pelf | C |
| And the other who charmed Mr Blair | B |
| It is just the Subconscious Self | C |
Andrew Lang
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