Ballade Of Running Away With Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABDBBCBC C BCBC| O ships upon the sea O shapes of air | A |
| O lands whose names are made of spice and tar | B |
| Old painted empires that are ever fair | A |
| From Cochin China down to Zanzibar | B |
| O Beauty simple soul less and bizarre | B |
| I would take Danger for my bosom wife | C |
| And light our bed with some wild tropic star | B |
| O how I long to run away with Life | C |
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| To run together Life and I What care | A |
| Ours if from Duty we may run so far | B |
| As to forget the daily mounting stair | A |
| The roaring subway and the clanging car | B |
| The stock that ne'er again shall be at par | B |
| The silly speed the city's stink and strife | C |
| The faces that to look on leaves a scar | B |
| O how I long to run away with Life | C |
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| Fling up the sail all sail that she can bear | A |
| And out across the little frightened bar | B |
| Into the fearless seas alone with her | D |
| The great sail humming to the straining spar | B |
| Curved as Love's breast and white as nenuphar | B |
| The spring wind singing like a happy fife | C |
| The keen prow cutting like a scimitar | B |
| O how I long to run away with Life | C |
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| ENVOI | C |
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| Princess the gates of Heaven are ajar | B |
| Cut we our bonds with Freedom's gleaming knife | C |
| Lo where Delight and all the Dancers are | B |
| O how I long to run away with Life | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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