A Ballade Of Montaigne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC CBBBBCBC CBCBBCBC D BCBC| I sit before the firelight's glow | A |
| With all the world in apogee | B |
| And con good Master Florio | A |
| With pipe a light and as I see | B |
| Queen Bess herself with book a knee | B |
| Reading it o'er and o'er again | C |
| Here 'neath my cosy mantel tree | B |
| I smoke my pipe and read Montaigne | C |
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| Now howls the wind and drives the snow | C |
| The traveler shivers on the lea | B |
| While with my precious folio | B |
| Behold a happy devotee | B |
| To book and warmth and reverie | B |
| The blast upon the window pane | C |
| Disturbs me not as trouble free | B |
| I smoke my pipe and read Montaigne | C |
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| I am content and thus I know | C |
| A mind as calm as summer sea | B |
| A heart that stranger is to woe | C |
| To happiness I hold the key | B |
| In this rare sweet philosophy | B |
| And while the Fates so fair ordain | C |
| Well pleased with Destiny's decree | B |
| I smoke my pipe and read Montaigne | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
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| Dear Prince aye more than prince to me | B |
| Thou monarch of immortal reign | C |
| Always thy subject I would be | B |
| And smoke my pipe and read Montaigne | C |
Arthur Macy
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