A Thermometrical Ballade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC DBCBC| There s a wind up that licks like a flame | A |
| And the sun is a porthole of hell | B |
| Now evanish prim notions of shame | A |
| And the craving to look rather well | B |
| In pyjamas you re never a swell | B |
| And you ve chosen some roomily made | C |
| Oh for ices these pangs to dispel | B |
| It s one hundred and nine in the shade | C |
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| We have limped in from tennis That game | A |
| I d as soon with the damned where they dwell | B |
| Stoke a furnace and bathe in the same | A |
| There s no drink human craving to quell | B |
| Not thin chablis nor sweet muscatel | B |
| Never more shall we see I m afraid | C |
| The cool shallows the pale asphodel | B |
| It s one hundred and nine in the shade | C |
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| You recline an invertebrate frame | A |
| In the moisture your atoms expel | B |
| Gainst the fates very feebly declaim | A |
| All too limp to rise up and rebel | B |
| Action flies and mosquitoes compel | B |
| We make pitiful fight gainst the raid | C |
| With a cloying and nauseous smell | B |
| In one hundred and nine in the shade | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
| Here might solids of Hamlet dispel | B |
| Quick the answer to prayer that he prayed | C |
| Human flesh turns to dew neath the spell | B |
| Of one hundred and nine in the shade | C |
Edward George Dyson
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