The Ballad Of Hampstead Heath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IBBB JBJB KJLJ DBMB NBOB PQRR RSRS JBRB RJRJ| From Heaven's Gate to Hampstead Heath | A |
| Young Bacchus and his crew | B |
| Came tumbling down and o'er the town | C |
| Their bursting trumpets blew | B |
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| The silver night was wildly bright | D |
| And madly shone the Moon | E |
| To hear a song so clear and strong | F |
| With such a lovely tune | E |
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| From London's houses huts and flats | G |
| Came busmen snobs and Earls | H |
| And ugly men in bowler hats | G |
| With charming little girls | H |
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| Sir Moses came with eyes of flame | I |
| Judd who is like a bloater | B |
| The brave Lord Mayor in coach and pair | B |
| King Edward in his motor | B |
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| Far in a rosy mist withdrawn | J |
| The God and all his crew | B |
| Silenus pulled by nymphs a faun | J |
| A satyr drenched in dew | B |
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| Smiled as they wept those shining tears | K |
| Only Immortals know | J |
| Whose feet are set among the stars | L |
| Above the shifting snow | J |
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| And one spake out into the night | D |
| Before they left for ever | B |
| Rejoice rejoice and his great voice | M |
| Rolled like a splendid river | B |
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| He spake in Greek which Britons speak | N |
| Seldom and circumspectly | B |
| But Mr Judd that man of mud | O |
| Translated it correctly | B |
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| And when they heard that happy word | P |
| Policemen leapt and ambled | Q |
| The busmen pranced the maidens danced | R |
| The men in bowlers gambolled | R |
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| A wistful Echo stayed behind | R |
| To join the mortal dances | S |
| But Mr Judd with words unkind | R |
| Rejected her advances | S |
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| And passing down through London Town | J |
| She stopped for all was lonely | B |
| Attracted by a big brass plate | R |
| Inscribed FOR MEMBERS ONLY | B |
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| And so she went to Parliament | R |
| But those ungainly men | J |
| Woke up from sleep and turned about | R |
| And fell asleep again | J |
James Elroy Flecker
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