A Ballad Of Too Much Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGEHH IJIJKK LHMMH| There is too much beauty upon this earth | A |
| For lonely men to bear | B |
| Too many eyes too enchanted skies | C |
| Too many things too fair | B |
| And the man who would live the life of a man | D |
| Must turn his eyes away if he can | D |
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| He must not look at the dawning day | E |
| Or watch the rising moon | F |
| From the little feet so white so fleet | G |
| He must turn his eyes away | E |
| And the flowers and the faces he must pass by | H |
| With stern self sacrificing eye | H |
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| For beauty and duty are strangers forever | I |
| Work and wonder ever apart | J |
| And the laws of life eternally sever | I |
| The ways of the brain from the ways of the heart | J |
| Be it flower or pearl or the face of a girl | K |
| Or the ways of the waters as they swirl | K |
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| Lo beauty is sorrow and sorrowful men | L |
| Have no heart to look on the face of the sky | H |
| Or hear the remorseful voice of the sea | M |
| Or the song of the wandering wind in the tree | M |
| Or even watch a butterfly | H |
Richard Le Gallienne
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