A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDE AFGFHIJIJ AFKFLMNIN OFPFPFQFQ OBLBKBRBR| I | A |
| 'Twas when the seas were roaring | B |
| With hollow blasts of wind | C |
| A damsel lay deploring | B |
| All on a rock reclin'd | C |
| Wide o'er the roaring billows | D |
| She cast a wistful look | E |
| Her head was crown'd with willows | D |
| That tremble o'er the brook | E |
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| II | A |
| Twelve months are gone and over | F |
| And nine long tedious days | G |
| Why didst thou vent'rous lover | F |
| Why didst thou trust the seas | H |
| Cease cease thou cruel ocean | I |
| And let my lover rest | J |
| Ah what's thy troubled motion | I |
| To that within my breast | J |
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| III | A |
| The merchant robb'd of pleasure | F |
| Sees tempests in despair | K |
| But what's the loss of treasure | F |
| To losing of my dear | L |
| Should you some coast be laid on | M |
| Where gold and diamonds grow | N |
| You'd find a richer maiden | I |
| But none that loves you so | N |
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| IV | O |
| How can they say that nature | F |
| Has nothing made in vain | P |
| Why then beneath the water | F |
| Should hideous rocks remain | P |
| No eyes the rocks discover | F |
| That lurk beneath the deep | Q |
| To wreck the wandering lover | F |
| And leave the maid to weep | Q |
| - | |
| V | O |
| All melancholy lying | B |
| Thus wail'd she for her dear | L |
| Repay'd each blast with sighing | B |
| Each billow with a tear | K |
| When o'er the white wave stooping | B |
| His floating corpse she spied | R |
| Then like a lily drooping | B |
| She bow'd her head and died | R |
John Gay
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