The Debate Between Villon And His Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFFFF FGHFIFEFFF JKLMNEFFFF OPQRSTFFFF FUVFFWX Y| Who's that I hear mdash It's me mdash Who mdash Your heart | A |
| Hanging on by the thinnest thread | B |
| I lose all my strength substance and fluid | C |
| When I see you withdrawn this way all alone | D |
| Like a whipped cur sulking in the corner | E |
| Is it due to your mad hedonism mdash | F |
| What's it to you mdash I have to suffer for it mdash | F |
| Leave me alone mdash Why mdash I'll think about it mdash | F |
| When will you do that mdash When I've grown up mdash | F |
| I've nothing more to tell you mdash I'll survive without it mdash | F |
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| What's your idea mdash To be a good man mdash | F |
| You're thirty for a mule that's a lifetime | G |
| You call that childhood mdash No mdash Madness | H |
| Must have hold of you mdash By what the halter mdash | F |
| You don't know a thing mdash Yes I do mdash What mdash Flies in milk | I |
| One's white one's black they're opposites mdash | F |
| That's all mdash How can I say it better | E |
| If that doesn't suit you I'll start over mdash | F |
| You're lost mdash Well I'll go down fighting mdash | F |
| I've nothing more to tell you mdash I'll survive without it mdash | F |
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| I get the heartache you the injury and pain | J |
| If you were just some poor crazy idiot | K |
| I'd be able to make excuses for you | L |
| You don't even care all's one to you foul or fair | M |
| Either your head's harder than a rock | N |
| Or you actually prefer misery to honor | E |
| Now what do you say to that mdash | F |
| Once I'm dead I'll rise above it mdash | F |
| God what comfort mdash What wise eloquence mdash | F |
| I've nothing more to tell you mdash I'll survive without it mdash | F |
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| Why are you miserable mdash Because of my miseries | O |
| When Saturn packed my satchel I think | P |
| He put in these troubles mdash That's mad | Q |
| You're his lord and you talk like his slave | R |
| Look what Solomon wrote in his book | S |
| A wise man he says has authority | T |
| Over the planets and their influence mdash | F |
| I don't believe it as they made me I'll be mdash | F |
| What are you saying mdash Yes that's what I think mdash | F |
| I've nothing more to tell you mdash I'll survive without it mdash | F |
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| Want to live mdash God give me the strength mdash | F |
| It's necessary mdash What is mdash To feel remorse | U |
| Lots of reading mdash What kind mdash Read for knowledge | V |
| Leave fools alone mdash I'll take your advice mdash | F |
| Or will you forget mdash I've got it fixed in mind mdash | F |
| Now act before things go from bad to worse | W |
| I've nothing more to tell you mdash I'll survive without it | X |
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| Trans Galway Kinnell | Y |
Franaois Villon
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