A Ballad Of London - (to H. W. Massinsham) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF AAGG HHII JJAA KLMM NNOM AAPP QQJJ| Ah London London our delight | A |
| Great flower that opens but at night | A |
| Great City of the Midnight Sun | B |
| Whose day begins when day is done | B |
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| Lamp after lamp against the sky | C |
| Opens a sudden beaming eye | C |
| Leaping alight on either hand | D |
| The iron lilies of the Strand | D |
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| Like dragonflies the hansoms hover | E |
| With jewelled eyes to catch the lover | E |
| The streets are full of lights and loves | F |
| Soft gowns and flutter of soiled doves | F |
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| The human moths about the light | A |
| Dash and cling close in dazed delight | A |
| And burn and laugh the world and wife | G |
| For this is London this is life | G |
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| Upon thy petals butterflies | H |
| But at thy root some say there lies | H |
| A world of weeping trodden things | I |
| Poor worms that have not eyes or wings | I |
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| From out corruption of their woe | J |
| Springs this bright flower that charms us so | J |
| Men die and rot deep out of sight | A |
| To keep this jungle flower bright | A |
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| Paris and London World Flowers twain | K |
| Wherewith the World Tree blooms again | L |
| Since Time hath gathered Babylon | M |
| And withered Rome still withers on | M |
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| Sidon and Tyre were such as ye | N |
| How bright they shone upon the Tree | N |
| But Time hath gathered both are gone | O |
| And no man sails to Babylon | M |
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| Ah London London our delight | A |
| For thee too the eternal night | A |
| And Circe Paris hath no charm | P |
| To stay Time's unrelenting arm | P |
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| Time and his moths shall eat up all | Q |
| Your chiming towers proud and tall | Q |
| He shall most utterly abase | J |
| And set a desert in their place | J |
Richard Le Gallienne
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