Ballad By The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABADBC BC ABAB BCBC E BCBC| Slowly I smoke and hug my knee | A |
| The while a witless masquerade | B |
| Of things that only children see | A |
| Floats in a mist of light and shade | B |
| They pass a flimsy cavalcade | B |
| And with a weak remindful glow | C |
| The falling embers break and fade | B |
| As one by one the phantoms go | C |
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| Then with a melancholy glee | A |
| To think where once my fancy strayed | B |
| I muse on what the years may be | A |
| Whose coming tales are all unsaid | D |
| Till tongs and shovel snugly laid | B |
| Within their shadowed niches grow | C |
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| By grim degrees to pick and spade | B |
| As one by one the phantoms go | C |
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| But then what though the mystic Three | A |
| Around me ply their merry trade | B |
| And Charon soon may carry me | A |
| Across the gloomy Stygian glade | B |
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| Be up my soul nor be afraid | B |
| Of what some unborn year may show | C |
| But mind your human debts are paid | B |
| As one by one the phantoms go | C |
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| ENVOY | E |
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| Life is the game that must be played | B |
| This truth at least good friend we know | C |
| So live and laugh nor be dismayed | B |
| As one by one the phantoms go | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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