Ballade Of A Talked-off Ear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D ECBC| Daily I listen to wonder and woe | A |
| Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace | B |
| Telling me stories of lava and snow | A |
| Delicate fables of ribbon and lace | B |
| Tales of the quarry the kill the chase | B |
| Longer than heaven and duller than hell | C |
| Never you blame me who cry my case | B |
| Poets alone should kiss and tell | C |
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| Dumbly I hear what I never should know | A |
| Gently I counsel of pride and of grace | B |
| Into minutiae gayly they go | A |
| Telling the name and the time and the place | B |
| Cede them your silence and grant them space | B |
| Who tenders an inch shall be raped of an ell | C |
| Sympathy's ever the boaster's brace | B |
| Poets alone should kiss and tell | C |
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| Why am I tithed what I never did owe | A |
| Choked with vicarious saffron and mace | B |
| Weary my lids and my fingers are slow | A |
| Gentlemen damn you you've halted my pace | B |
| Only the lads of the cursed race | B |
| Only the knights of the desolate spell | C |
| May point me the lines the blood drops trace | B |
| Poets alone should kiss and tell | C |
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| L'ENVOI | D |
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| Prince or commoner tenor or bass | E |
| Painter or plumber or never do well | C |
| Do me a favor and shut your face | B |
| Poets alone should kiss and tell | C |
Dorothy Parker
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