Ballade Of Suicide, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA ABABBABA ABABBABA C BABA

The gallows in my garden people sayA
Is new and neat and adequately tallB
I tie the noose on in a knowing wayA
As one that knots his necktie for a ballB
But just as all the neighbours on the wallB
Are drawing a long breath to shout HurrayA
The strangest whim has seized me After allB
I think I will not hang myself to dayA
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To morrow is the time I get my payA
My uncle's sword is hanging in the hallB
I see a little cloud all pink and greyA
Perhaps the rector's mother will not callB
I fancy that I heard from Mr GallB
That mushrooms could be cooked another wayA
I never read the works of JuvenalB
I think I will not hang myself to dayA
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The world will have another washing dayA
The decadents decay the pedants pallB
And H G Wells has found that children playA
And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squallB
Rationalists are growing rationalB
And through thick woods one finds a stream astrayA
So secret that the very sky seems smallB
I think I will not hang myself to dayA
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EnvoiC
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Prince I can hear the trump of GerminalB
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible wayA
Even to day your royal head may fallB
I think I will not hang myself to dayA

Gilbert Keith Chesterton



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