The Ballad Of Dead Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACAADAD AAAAADAD EAFAAGAD HDHD| From the French of Fran ccedil ois Villon | A |
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| Tell me now in what hidden way is | B |
| Lady Flora the lovely Roman | A |
| Where's Hipparchia and where is Thais | C |
| Neither of them the fairer woman | A |
| Where is Echo beheld of no man | A |
| Only heard on river and mere | D |
| She whose beauty was more than human | A |
| But where are the snows of yester year | D |
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| Where's Heloise the learned nun | A |
| For whose sake Abeillard I ween | A |
| Lost manhood and put priesthood on | A |
| From Love he won such dule and teen | A |
| And where I pray you is the Queen | A |
| Who willed that Buridan should steer | D |
| Sewed in a sack's mouth down the Seine | A |
| But where are the snows of yester year | D |
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| White Queen Blanche like a queen of lilies | E |
| With a voice like any mermaiden | A |
| Bertha Broadfoot Beatrice Alice | F |
| And Ermengarde the lady of Maine | A |
| And that good Joan whom Englishmen | A |
| At Rouen doomed and burned her there | G |
| Mother of God where are they then | A |
| But where are the snows of yester year | D |
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| Nay never ask this week fair lord | H |
| Where they are gone nor yet this year | D |
| Except with this for an overword | H |
| But where are the snows of yester year | D |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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