Ballade Of The Making Of Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBDBC E BCBC| Bees make their honey out of coloured flowers | A |
| Through the June day with all its beam and scent | B |
| Heather of breezy hills and idle bowers | A |
| Brushing soft doors of every blossoming tent | B |
| Filling gold thighs in drowsy ravishment | B |
| Pillaging vines on the hot garden wall | C |
| Taking of each small bloom its little rent | B |
| Poets must make their honey out of gall | C |
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| Singers not so this craven life of ours | A |
| Our honey out of bitter herbs is blent | B |
| The songs that fall as soft as April showers | A |
| Came of the whips and scorns of chastisement | B |
| From smitten lips and hearts in sorrow bent | B |
| Distilled of blood and wormwood are they all | C |
| Idly you heard indifferent what they meant | B |
| Poets must make their honey out of gall | C |
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| You lords and ladies sitting high in towers | A |
| Scarcely attending the sweet instrument | B |
| That lulls you 'mid your cruel careless hours | A |
| Melodious minister of your content | B |
| Think you this music was from Heaven sent | B |
| Nay Hell hath made it thus so musical | D |
| And to its making thorns and nettles went | B |
| Poets must make their honey out of gall | C |
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| ENVOI | E |
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| Prince of this world enthroned and insolent | B |
| Beware lest with a song your towers fall | C |
| Your pride sent blazing up the firmament | B |
| Poets must make their honey out of gall | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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