Ballade Mystique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDC ADADDCDC ADADDCDC EDCDCThe 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 |
Clive Staples Lewis
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