Ballade Of The Traffickers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D BCBC| Up goes the price of our bread | A |
| Up goes the cost of our caking | B |
| People must ever be fed | A |
| Bakers must ever be baking | B |
| So though our nerves may be quaking | B |
| Dumbly in arrant despair | C |
| Pay we the crowd that is taking | B |
| All that the traffic will bear | C |
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| Costly to sleep in a bed | A |
| Costlier yet to be waking | B |
| Costly for one who is wed | A |
| Ruinous for one who is raking | B |
| Tradespeople ducking and draking | B |
| Charge you as much as they dare | C |
| Asking without any faking | B |
| All that the traffic will bear | C |
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| Roof that goes over our head | A |
| Thirst so expensive for slaking | B |
| Paper apparel and lead | A |
| Why are their prices at breaking | B |
| Yet though our purses be aching | B |
| Little the traffickers care | C |
| Getting for chopping and steaking | B |
| All that the traffic will bear | C |
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| L'ENVOI | D |
| - | |
| Take thou my verses I pray King | B |
| Letting my guerdon be fair | C |
| Even a bard must be making | B |
| All that the traffic will bear | C |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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