The Ballade Of The Incompetent Ballade-monger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDC ABABB BC ABABBCBC BCBC| I am not ambitious at all | A |
| I am not a poet I know | B |
| Though I do love to see a mere scrawl | A |
| To order and symmetry grow | B |
| My muse is uncertain and slow | B |
| I am not expert with my tools | C |
| I lack the poetic argot | D |
| But I hope I have kept to the rules | C |
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| When your brain is undoubtedly small | A |
| 'Tis hard sir to write in a row | B |
| Some five or six rhymes to Nepaul | A |
| And more than a dozen to Joe | B |
| The metre is easier though | B |
| Three rhymes are sufficient for 'ghouls ' | - |
| My lines are deficient in go | B |
| But I hope I have kept to the rules | C |
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| Unable to fly let me crawl | A |
| Your patronage kindly bestow | B |
| I am not the author of Saul | A |
| I am not Voltaire or Rousseau | B |
| I am not desirous oh no | B |
| To rise from the ranks of the fools | C |
| To shine with Gosse Dobson and Co | B |
| But I hope I have kept to the rules | C |
| - | |
| Dear Sir though my language is low | B |
| Let me dip in Pierian pools | C |
| My verses are only so so | B |
| But I hope I have kept to the rules | C |
James Kenneth Stephen
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