Prelude: Ballads Of A Bohemian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCDBEBEBFBFGAH AIJIJBKBK LBLBMAMANONOPOPO QRQRSBSBBTBTUVUVWWAlas upon some starry height | A |
The Gods of Excellence to please | B |
This hand of mine will never smite | A |
The Harp of High Serenities | B |
Mere minstrel of the street am I | C |
To whom a careless coin you fling | D |
But who beneath the bitter sky | C |
Blue lipped yet insolent of eye | C |
Can shrill a song of Spring | D |
A song of merry mansard days | B |
The cheery chimney tops among | E |
Of rolics and of roundelays | B |
When we were young when we were young | E |
A song of love and lilac nights | B |
Of wit of wisdom and of wine | F |
Of Folly whirling on the Heights | B |
Of hunger and of hope divine | F |
Of Blanche Suzette and Celestine | G |
And all that gay and tender band | A |
Who shared with us the fat the lean | H |
The hazard of Illusion land | A |
When scores of Philistines we slew | I |
As mightily with brush and pen | J |
We sought to make the world anew | I |
And scorned the gods of other men | J |
When we were fools divinely wise | B |
Who held it rapturous to strive | K |
When Art was sacred in our eyes | B |
And it was Heav'n to be alive | K |
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O days of glamor glory truth | L |
To you to night I raise my glass | B |
O freehold of immortal youth | L |
Bohemia the lost alas | B |
O laughing lads who led the romp | M |
Respectable you've grown I'm told | A |
Your heads you bow to power and pomp | M |
You've learned to know the worth of gold | A |
O merry maids who shared our cheer | N |
Your eyes are dim your locks are gray | O |
And as you scrub I sadly fear | N |
Your daughters speed the dance to day | O |
O windmill land and crescent moon | P |
O Columbine and Pierrette | O |
To you my old guitar I tune | P |
Ere I forget ere I forget | O |
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So come good men who toil and tire | Q |
Who smoke and sip the kindly cup | R |
Ring round about the tavern fire | Q |
Ere yet you drink your liquor up | R |
And hear my simple songs of earth | S |
Of youth and truth and living things | B |
Of poverty and proper mirth | S |
Of rags and rich imaginings | B |
Of cock a hoop blue heavened days | B |
Of hearts elate and eager breath | T |
Of wonder worship pity praise | B |
Of sorrow sacrifice and death | T |
Of lusting laughter passion pain | U |
Of lights that lure and dreams that thrall | V |
And if a golden word I gain | U |
Oh kindly folks God save you all | V |
And if you shake your heads in blame | W |
Good friends God love you all the same | W |
Robert William Service
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