Ballade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ABB CB D E AE FA AC GAD HI JI IC ID B K CK D| Bodies of comrade soldiers gleaming white | A |
| Within the mill pool where you float and dive | B |
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| And lounge around part clothed or naked quite | A |
| Beautiful shining forms of men alive | B |
| O living lutes stringed with the senses five | B |
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| For Love's sweet fingers seeing Fate afar | C |
| My very soul with Death for you must strive | B |
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| Because of you I loathe the name of War | D |
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| But O you piteous corpses yellow black | E |
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| Rotting unburied in the sunbeam's light | A |
| With teeth laid bare by yellow Hps curled back | E |
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| Most hideously whose tortured souls took | F |
| flight | A |
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| Leaving your limbs all mangled by the fight | A |
| In attitudes of horror fouler far | C |
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| Than dreams which haunt a devil's brain at | G |
| night | A |
| Because of you I loathe the name of War | D |
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| Mothers and maids who loved you and the wives | H |
| Bereft of your sweet presences yea all | I |
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| Who knew you beautiful and those small lives | J |
| Made of that knowledge O and you who call | I |
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| For life but vainly now from that dark hall | I |
| Where wait the Unborn and the loves which are | C |
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| In future generations to befall | I |
| Because of you I loathe the name of War | D |
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| l'envoi | B |
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| Prince Jesu hanging stark upon a tree | K |
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| Crucified as the malefactors are | C |
| That man and man henceforth should brothers be | K |
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| Because of you I loathe the name of War | D |
Frederick William (fw) Harvey
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