Ballade Of The Dead Face That Never Dies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBD ABABBDBD ABABEFBD G BDBD| The peril of fair faces all his days | A |
| No man shall 'scape be it for joy or woe | B |
| Each is the thrall of some predestined face | C |
| Divinely doomed to work his overthrow | B |
| Transiently fair as flowers in gardens blow | B |
| Then fade and charm no more our listless eyes | D |
| But some fair faces ever fairer grow | B |
| Beware of the dead face that never dies | D |
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| No snare young beauty for thy manhood lays | A |
| No honeyed kiss the girls of Paphos know | B |
| Shall hold thee as the silent smiling ways | A |
| Of her that went yet only seemed to go | B |
| With April blossoms and with last year's snow | B |
| Each year she comes again in subtler guise | D |
| And beckons us to her green bed below | B |
| Beware of the dead face that never dies | D |
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| The living fade before her lunar gaze | A |
| Her phantom youth their ruddy veins out glow | B |
| She lays cold fingers on the lips that praise | A |
| Aught save her lovely face of long ago | B |
| Oblivious poppies all in vain we sow | E |
| Before the opening gates of Paradise | F |
| There shalt thou find her pacing to and fro | B |
| Beware of the dead face that never dies | D |
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| ENVOI | G |
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| Prince take thy fill of love for even so | B |
| Sad men grow happy and no other wise | D |
| But love the quick and as thy mortal foe | B |
| Beware of the dead face that never dies | D |
Richard Le Gallienne
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