Ballade Of Reading Bad Books Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC D BBBB| O sad eyed man who yonder sits | A |
| Face in a book from morn till night | B |
| Who though the world should go to bits | A |
| Pores on right through the waning light | B |
| O is it sorrow or delight | B |
| That holds you though the sun has set | C |
| I read he said what these fools write | B |
| Not to remember but forget | C |
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| Man drinks or gambles woman knits | A |
| To put their sorrow out of sight | B |
| From folly unto folly flits | A |
| The weary mind or wrong or right | B |
| My melancholy taketh flight | B |
| Reading the worst books I can get | C |
| The worst yet best such is my plight | B |
| Not to remember but forget | C |
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| 'Tis not alone the immortal wits | A |
| The lords of language pens of might | B |
| Past masters of the word that fits | A |
| In their mosaic true and bright | B |
| That aid us in our mortal fight | B |
| And heal us of our wild regret | C |
| But books that humbler pens indite | B |
| Not to remember but forget | C |
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| ENVOI | D |
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| O Prince 'tis but the neophyte | B |
| Who scorns this humble novelette | B |
| You watch me reading un contrite | B |
| Not to remember but forget | B |
Richard Le Gallienne
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