A Ballade Of Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBA ABABBABA ABABBABA DBABAThe gallows in my garden people say | A |
Is new and neat and adequately tall | B |
I tie the noose on in a knowing way | A |
As one that knots his necktie for a ball | B |
But just as all the neighbours on the wall | B |
Are drawing a long breath to shout 'Hurray ' | C |
The strangest whim has seized me After all | B |
I think I will not hang myself today | A |
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Tomorrow is the time I get my pay | A |
My uncle's sword is hanging in the hall | B |
I see a little cloud all pink and grey | A |
Perhaps the Rector's mother will not call | B |
I fancy that I heard from Mr Gall | B |
That mushrooms could be cooked another way | A |
I never read the works of Juvenal | B |
I think I will not hang myself today | A |
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The world will have another washing day | A |
The decadents decay the pedants pall | B |
And H G Wells has found that children play | A |
And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall | B |
Rationalists are growing rational | B |
And through thick woods one finds a stream astray | A |
So secret that the very sky seems small | B |
I think I will not hang myself today | A |
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Envoi | D |
Prince I can hear the trumpet of Germinal | B |
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way | A |
Even today your royal head may fall | B |
I think I will not hang myself today | A |
G. K. Chesterton
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