A Ballad Of Gentleness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDD ABABBDD AAAAADD| The firste stock father of gentleness | A |
| What man desireth gentle for to be | B |
| Must follow his trace and all his wittes dress | C |
| Virtue to love and vices for to flee | B |
| For unto virtue longeth dignity | B |
| And not the reverse safely dare I deem | D |
| All wear he mitre crown or diademe | D |
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| This firste stock was full of righteousness | A |
| True of his word sober pious and free | B |
| Clean of his ghost and loved business | A |
| Against the vice of sloth in honesty | B |
| And but his heir love virtue as did he | B |
| He is not gentle though he riche seem | D |
| All wear he mitre crown or diademe | D |
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| Vice may well be heir to old richess | A |
| But there may no man as men may well see | A |
| Bequeath his heir his virtuous nobless | A |
| That is appropried to no degree | A |
| But to the first Father in majesty | A |
| Which makes his heire him that doth him queme | D |
| All wear he mitre crown or diademe | D |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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