Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert D'estouteville Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ACAEADAD ACAFGDHD GDID| A t dawn of day when falcon shakes his wing | A |
| M ainly from pleasure and from noble usage | B |
| B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing | A |
| R eceiving their mates mingling their plumage | B |
| O as the desires it lights in me now rage | C |
| I 'd offer you joyously what befits the lover | D |
| S ee how Love has written this very page | C |
| E ven for this end are we come together | D |
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| D oubtless as my heart's lady you'll have being | A |
| E ntirely now till death consumes my age | C |
| L aurel so sweet for my cause now fighting | A |
| O live so noble removing all bitter foliage | E |
| R eason does not wish me unused to owing | A |
| E ven as I'm to agree with this wish forever | D |
| Duty to you but rather grow used to serving | A |
| Even for this end are we come together | D |
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| And what's more when sorrow's beating | A |
| Down on me through Fate's incessant rage | C |
| Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging | A |
| Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away | F |
| As in your field I plant I lose no grain | G |
| For the harvest resembles me and ever | D |
| God orders me to plough and sow again | H |
| Even for this end are we come together | D |
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| Princess listen to this I now maintain | G |
| That my heart and yours will not dissever | D |
| So much I presume of you and claim | I |
| Even for this end are we come together | D |
Franaois Villon
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