Ballad Of Captious Critics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D BCBC| Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore | A |
| Cramped in their studies they sneer and scold | B |
| At the strange new passions young hearts would pour | A |
| Thro' a sunlit land and a tale unfold | B |
| Of youth's ambition new minted gold | B |
| Fresh from life's furnace all aglow | C |
| With none of its worth are their hearts cajoled | B |
| If it waken no echo of things they know | C |
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| Their minds close cluttered with olden lore | A |
| Their praise for the new is charity doled | B |
| Their memories clogged with a moss grown store | A |
| Of dead men's wisdom naught also may hold | B |
| The flight of an eaglet overhold | B |
| Is an impudent thing so their judgements go | C |
| And the song of a bush bird leaves them cold | B |
| If it wakes no echo of things they know | C |
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| Songs have sprung from this virgin shore | A |
| Tales that are turned from an unworn mould | B |
| These be but follies that grieve them sore | A |
| Rhymes the old troubadours have not trolled | B |
| Themes must be borrowed from urn of old | B |
| For originality irks them so | C |
| And the voice of the bush must be controlled | B |
| If it wakes no echo of things they know | C |
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| ENVOI | D |
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| Prints aye and reprints tales retold | B |
| Shadows for these do their plaudits grow | C |
| But the bard stays dumb and the book unsold | B |
| If it waken no echo of things they know | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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