The Ballade Of The Average Reader Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABACBBCBC ABABBCBC D BCB| I try to touch the public taste | A |
| For thus I earn my daily bread | B |
| I try to write what folks will paste | A |
| In scrap books after I am dead | B |
| By Public Craving I am led | B |
| I' sooth a most despotic leader | C |
| Yet though I write for Tom and Ned | B |
| I've never seen an average reader | C |
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| The Editor is good and chaste | A |
| But says Above the public's head | B |
| This is too good 'twill go to waste | A |
| Write something commonplacer | C |
| Ed | B |
| Write for the average reader fed | B |
| By pre digested near food's feeder | C |
| But though my high ideals have fled | B |
| I've never seen an average reader | C |
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| How many lines have been erased | A |
| How many fancies have been shed | B |
| How many failures might be traced | A |
| To this this average reader dread | B |
| I've seen an average single bed | B |
| I've seen an average garden weeder | C |
| I've seen an average cotton thread | B |
| I've never seen an average reader | C |
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| L'ENVOI | D |
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| Most read of readers if you've read | B |
| The works of any old succeeder | C |
| You know that he too must have said | B |
| 'I've never seen an Average Reader ' | - |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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