Ballade Mystique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDC ADADDCDC ADADDCDC EDCDC| The big red house is bare and lone | A |
| The stony garden waste and sere | B |
| With blight of breezes ocean blown | A |
| To pinch the wakening of the year | B |
| My kindly friends with busy cheer | B |
| My wretchedness could plainly show | C |
| They tell me I am lonely here | D |
| What do they know What do they know | C |
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| They think that while the gables moan | A |
| And easements creak in winter drear | D |
| I should be piteously alone | A |
| Without the speech of comrades dear | D |
| And friendly for my sake they fear | D |
| It grieves them thinking of me so | C |
| While all their happy life is near | D |
| What do they know What do they know | C |
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| That I have seen the Dagda's throne | A |
| In sunny lands without a tear | D |
| And found a forest all my own | A |
| To ward with magic shield and spear | D |
| Where through the stately towers I rear | D |
| For my desire around me go | C |
| Immortal shapes of beauty clear | D |
| They do not know they do not know | C |
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| L'ENVOI | E |
| The friends I have without a peer | D |
| Beyond the western ocean's glow | C |
| Whither the faerie galleys steer | D |
| They do not know how should they know | C |
C. S. Lewis
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