The Ballade Of Butterflies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBBBB ABABBBBBDBBBB| Because we never build a nest | A |
| And no one of us ever sings | B |
| We are the butt of every jest | A |
| That strutting loud mouthed robin flings | B |
| Unless the field with laughter rings | B |
| And we are meek in our replies | C |
| His claws and beak to bear he brings | B |
| Have pity on all butterflies | C |
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| Since we are of no home possessed | A |
| And have no joy in courts and kings | B |
| And love on working days to rest | A |
| The name of 'Idlers' to us clings | B |
| On all our gypsy travellings | B |
| They follow us with jeering cries | B |
| From every rose a spider springs | B |
| Have pity on all butterflies | B |
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| A little thing is our request | A |
| Some peace from nets of sticks and strings | B |
| An hour to feel the sunlight's zest | A |
| To 'scape the deadly bee that stings | B |
| From hostile fortune's bolts and slings | B |
| Give us release ere Summer dies | B |
| We dread the Winter's threatenings | B |
| Have pity on all butterflies | B |
| L'ENVOI | D |
| Great Pan kind lord of living things | B |
| Look on us now with friendly eyes | B |
| We pray to you on trembling wings | B |
| Have pity on all butterflies | B |
Joyce Kilmer
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