A Ballade Of Theatricals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABDCBC E BCBC| Though all the critics' canons grow | A |
| Far seedier than the actors' own | B |
| Although the cottage door's too low | A |
| Although the fairy's twenty stone | B |
| Although just like the telephone | B |
| She comes by wire and not by wings | C |
| Though all the mechanism's known | B |
| Belive me there are real things | C |
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| Yes real people even so | A |
| Even in a theatre truth is known | B |
| Though the agnostic will not know | A |
| And though the gnostic will not own | B |
| There is a thing called skin and bone | B |
| And many a man that struts and sings | C |
| Has been as stony broke as stone | B |
| Belive me there are real things | C |
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| There is an hour when all men go | A |
| An hour when man is all alone | B |
| When idle minstrels in a row | A |
| Went down with all the bugles blown | B |
| When brass and hymn and drum went down | D |
| Down in death's throat with thunderings | C |
| Ah though the unreal things have grown | B |
| Believe me there are real things | C |
| - | |
| ENVOY | E |
| - | |
| Prince though your hair is not your own | B |
| And half your face held on by strings | C |
| And if you sat you'd smash your throne | B |
| Believe me there are real things | C |
G. K. Chesterton
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