Ballade To Our Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE DDD FFGFGCCCCCCCGCG HIHIIJEGJG KAKGKKG C| WRITTEN FOR HIS MOTHER | A |
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| Dame du ciel regents terrienne | B |
| Emperiere des infemaux palus | C |
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| Lady of Heaven and earth and therewithal | D |
| Crowned Empress of the nether clefts of Hell mdash | E |
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| I thy poor Christian on thy name do call | D |
| Commending me to thee with thee to dwell | D |
| Albeit in nought I be commendable | D |
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| But all mine undeserving may not mar | F |
| Such mercies as thy sovereign mercies are | F |
| Without the which as true words testify | G |
| No soul can reach thy Heaven so fair and far | F |
| Even in this faith I choose to live and die | G |
| Unto thy Son say thou that I am His | C |
| And to me graceless make Him gracious | C |
| Said Mary of Egypt lacked not of that bliss | C |
| Nor yet the sorrowful clerk Theopbilus | C |
| Whose bitter sins were set aside even thus | C |
| Though to the Fiend his bounden service was | C |
| Oh help me lest in vain for me should pass | C |
| Sweet Virgin that shalt have no loss thereby | G |
| The blessed Host and sacring of the Mass | C |
| Even in this faith I choose to live and die | G |
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| A pitiful poor woman shrunk and old | H |
| I am and nothing learn'd in letter lore | I |
| Within my parish cloister I behold | H |
| A painted Heaven where harps and lutes adore | I |
| And eke an Hell whose damned folk seethe full sore | I |
| One bringeth fear the other joy to me | J |
| That joy great Goddess make thou mine to be mdash | E |
| Thou of whom all must ask it even as I | G |
| And that which faith desires that let it see | J |
| For in this faith I choose to live and die | G |
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| O excellent Virgin Princess thou didst bear | K |
| King Jesus the most excellent comforter | A |
| Who even of this our weakness craved a share | K |
| And for our sake stooped to us from on high | G |
| Offering to death His young life sweet and fair | K |
| Such as He is Our Lord I Him declare | K |
| And in this faith I choose to live and die | G |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti trans | C |
Franaois Villon
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