Ballade Of The Hardy Annual Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC A ABBCBC ABABBABA D BABA| Many a jest that refuses to die | A |
| Bobs up again as the seasons appear | B |
| Deathless it hits us again in the eye | A |
| Changeless and dull as the calendar year | B |
| Musty and mouldy and yellow and sere | B |
| Stronger withal than the sturdiest oak | C |
| Ancient and solemn and deadly and drear | B |
| Down with the grandmother funeral joke | C |
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| Soon as the snow has forgotten to fly | A |
| All through the day of the 'leathery sphere ' | - |
| Jokelets and pictures and verses we spy | A |
| All on the theme of the grandmother dear | B |
| Bonnets umbrellas and buckets of beer | B |
| Please us and tickle us quite to the choke | C |
| But on this matter our attitude's clear | B |
| Down with the grandmother funeral joke | C |
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| Giggle we can at a blueberry pie | A |
| Scream at a comedy king or ameer | B |
| Simply guffaw when the jestermen guy | A |
| Marriage a thing at which no one should jeer | B |
| Things that in others elicit a tear | B |
| All of our risibles simply unyoke | A |
| But from this stand we're unwilling to veer | B |
| Down with the grandmother funeral joke | A |
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| L'ENVOI | D |
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| Brothers in motley the season is here | B |
| Small is the boon that we sadly invoke | A |
| Butcher it murder it jump on its ear | B |
| Down with the grandmother funeral joke | A |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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