Ballad Of The Gibbet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCBAB DEDAEBBBEB FGFBGGHHBGB IAABAB| Brothers and men that shall after us be | A |
| Let not your hearts be hard to us | B |
| For pitying this our misery | A |
| Ye shall find God the more piteous | B |
| Look on us six that are hanging thus | B |
| And for the flesh that so much we cherished | C |
| How it is eaten of birds and perished | C |
| And ashes and dust fill our bones' place | B |
| Mock not at us that so feeble be | A |
| But pray God pardon us out of his grace | B |
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| Listen we pray you and look not in scorn | D |
| Though justly in sooth we are cast to die | E |
| Ye wot no man so wise is born | D |
| That keeps his wisdom constantly | A |
| Be ye then merciful and cry | E |
| To Mary's Son that is piteous | B |
| That his mercy take no stain from us | B |
| Saving us out of the fiery place | B |
| We are but dead let no soul deny | E |
| To pray God succor us of His grace | B |
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| The rain out of heaven has washed us clean | F |
| The sun has scorched us black and bare | G |
| Ravens and rooks have pecked at our eyne | F |
| And feathered their nests with our beards | B |
| And hair | G |
| Round are we tossed and here and there | G |
| This way and that at the wild wind's will | H |
| Never a moment my body is still | H |
| Birds they are busy about my face | B |
| Live not as we not fare as we fare | G |
| Pray God pardon us out of His grace | B |
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| L'envoy | I |
| Prince Jesus Master of all to thee | A |
| We pray Hell gain no mastery | A |
| That we come never anear that place | B |
| And ye men make no mockery | A |
| Pray God pardon us out of His grace | B |
Franaois Villon
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