Ballade Of Suicide, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA ABABBABA ABABBABA C BABA| The 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 | A |
| The strangest whim has seized me After all | B |
| I think I will not hang myself to day | A |
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| To morrow 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 to day | 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 to day | A |
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| Envoi | C |
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| Prince I can hear the trump of Germinal | B |
| The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way | A |
| Even to day your royal head may fall | B |
| I think I will not hang myself to day | A |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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