Ballade Of A Great Weariness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC C BCBC| There's little to have but the things I had | A |
| There's little to bear but the things I bore | B |
| There's nothing to carry and naught to add | A |
| And glory to Heaven I paid the score | B |
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| There's little to do but I did before | B |
| There's little to learn but the things I know | C |
| And this is the sum of a lasting lore | B |
| Scratch a lover and find a foe | C |
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| And couldn't it be I was young and mad | A |
| If ever my heart on my sleeve I wore | B |
| There's many to claw at a heart unclad | A |
| And little the wonder it ripped and tore | B |
| There's one that'll join in their push and roar | B |
| With stories to jabber and stones to throw | C |
| He'll fetch you a lesson that costs you sore | B |
| Scratch a lover and find a foe | C |
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| So little I'll offer to you my lad | A |
| It's little in loving I set my store | B |
| There's many a maid would be flushed and glad | A |
| And better you'll knock at a kindlier door | B |
| I'll dig at my lettuce and sweep my floor | B |
| Forever forever I'm done with woe | C |
| And happen I'll whistle about my chore | B |
| Scratch a lover and find a foe | C |
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| L'ENVOI | C |
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| Oh beggar or prince no more no more | B |
| Be off and away with your strut and show | C |
| The sweeter the apple the blacker the core | B |
| Scratch a lover and find a foe | C |
Dorothy Parker
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