Ballade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC| By Mystic's banks I held my dream | A |
| I held my fishing rod as well | B |
| The vision was of dace and bream | A |
| A fruitless vision sooth to tell | B |
| But round about the sylvan dell | B |
| Were other sweet Arcadian shrines | C |
| Gone now is all the rural spell | B |
| Arcadia has trolley lines | C |
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| Oh once loved sluggish darkling stream | A |
| For me no more thy waters swell | B |
| Thy music now the engines' scream | A |
| Thy fragrance now the factory's smell | B |
| Too near for me the clanging bell | B |
| A false light in the water shines | C |
| While Solitude lists to her knell | B |
| Arcadia has trolley lines | C |
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| Thy wooded lanes with shade and gleam | A |
| Where bloomed the fragrant asphodel | B |
| Now bleak commercially teem | A |
| With signs To Let To Buy To Sell | B |
| And Commerce holds them fierce and fell | B |
| With vulgar sport she now combines | C |
| Sweet Nature's piping voice to quell | B |
| Arcadia has trolley lines | C |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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