Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGDHDIJJJG JDDJJKJG LMJG| Tell me where in what country | A |
| Is Flora the beautiful Roman | B |
| Archipiada or Thais | C |
| Who was first cousin to her once | D |
| Echo who speaks when there's a sound | E |
| On a pond or a river | F |
| Whose beauty was more than human | B |
| But where are the snows of yesteryear | G |
| Where is the leamed Heloise | D |
| For whom they castrated Pierre Abelard | H |
| And made him a monk at Saint Denis | D |
| For his love he took this pain | I |
| Likewise where is the queen | J |
| Who commanded that Buridan | J |
| Be thrown in a sack into the Seine | J |
| But where are the snows of yesteryear | G |
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| The queen white as a lily | J |
| Who sang with a siren's voice | D |
| Big footed Bertha Beatrice Alice | D |
| Haremburgis who held Maine | J |
| And Jeanne the good maid of Lorraine | J |
| Whom the English bumt at Rouen where | K |
| Where are they sovereign Virgin | J |
| But where are the snows of yesteryear | G |
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| Prince don't ask me in a week | L |
| or in a year what place they are | M |
| I can only give you this refrain | J |
| Where are the snows of yesteryear | G |
Franaois Villon
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