Ballade Of Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABDBBCBC DBDBBCBC E BCBC| A woman lightly the mysterious word | A |
| Falls from our lips lightly as though we knew | B |
| Its meaning as we say a flower a bird | A |
| Or say the moon the stream the light the dew | B |
| Simple familiar things mysterious too | B |
| Or as a star is set down on a chart | C |
| Named with a name out yonder in the blue | B |
| A woman and yet how much more thou art | C |
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| So lightly spoken and so lightly heard | A |
| And yet strange word who shall thy sense construe | B |
| What sage hath yet fit designation dared | D |
| Yet I have sought the dictionaries through | B |
| And of thy meaning found me not a clue | B |
| Blessing and breaking still the firmest heart | C |
| So fairy false yet so divinely true | B |
| A woman and yet how much more thou art | C |
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| Mother of God and Circe bosom bared | D |
| That nursed our manhood and our manhood slew | B |
| First dream last sigh all the long way we fared | D |
| Sweeter than honey bitterer than rue | B |
| Thou fated radiance sorrowing men pursue | B |
| Thou art the whole of life the rest but part | C |
| Of thee all things we ever dream or do | B |
| A woman and yet how much more thou art | C |
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| ENVOI | E |
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| Princess that all this craft of moonlight threw | B |
| Across my path this deep immortal smart | C |
| Shall still burn on when winds my ashes strew | B |
| A woman and yet how much more thou art | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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