A Ballade Of Waiting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBD AEFBBDBD AGABBDBD H BDBD| No girdle hath weaver or goldsmith wrought | A |
| So rich as the arms of my love can be | B |
| No gems with a lovelier lustre fraught | A |
| Than her eyes when they answer me liquidly | C |
| Dear lady of love be kind to me | B |
| In days when the waters of hope abate | D |
| And doubt like a shimmer on sand shall be | B |
| In the year yet Lady to dream and wait | D |
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| Sweet mouth that the wear of the world hath taught | A |
| No glitter of wile or traitorie | E |
| More soft than a cloud in the sunset caught | F |
| Or the heart of a crimson peony | B |
| Oh turn not its beauty away from me | B |
| To kiss it and cling to it early and late | D |
| Shall make sweet minutes of days that flee | B |
| In the year yet Lady to dream and wait | D |
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| Rich hair that a painter of old had sought | A |
| For the weaving of some soft phantasy | G |
| Most fair when the streams of it run distraught | A |
| On the firm sweet shoulders yellowly | B |
| Dear Lady gather it close to me | B |
| Weaving a nest for the double freight | D |
| Of cheeks and lips that are one and free | B |
| For the year yet Lady to dream and wait | D |
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| Envoi | H |
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| So time shall be swift till thou mate with me | B |
| For love is mightiest next to fate | D |
| And none shall be happier Love than we | B |
| In the year yet Lady to dream and wait | D |
Archibald Lampman
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