Valentine In Form Of Ballade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABA BCBC ABABBCBC D BCBC| The soft wind from the south land sped | A |
| He set his strength to blow | B |
| From forests where Adonis bled | A |
| And lily flowers a row | B |
| He crossed the straits like streams that flow | B |
| The ocean dark as wine | C |
| To my true love to whisper low | B |
| To be your Valentine | C |
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| The Spring half raised her drowsy head | A |
| Besprent with drifted snow | B |
| 'I'll send an April day ' she said | A |
| 'To lands of wintry woe ' | - |
| He came the winter's overthrow | B |
| With showers that sing and shine | C |
| Pied daisies round your path to strow | B |
| To be your Valentine | C |
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| Where sands of Egypt swart and red | A |
| 'Neath suns Egyptian glow | B |
| In places of the princely dead | A |
| By the Nile's overflow | B |
| The swallow preened her wings to go | B |
| And for the North did pine | C |
| And fain would brave the frost her foe | B |
| To be your Valentine | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
| - | |
| Spring Swallow South Wind even so | B |
| Their various voice combine | C |
| But that they crave on ME bestow | B |
| To be your Valentine | C |
Andrew Lang
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