Ballade Made In The Hot Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBCCDDDD BBBBBCCDDDD BBBBBCCDDDD E DDDDDTo C M | A |
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Fountains that frisk and sprinkle | B |
The moss they overspill | B |
Pools that the breezes crinkle | B |
The wheel beside the mill | B |
With its wet weedy frill | B |
Wind shadows in the wheat | C |
A water cart in the street | C |
The fringe of foam that girds | D |
An islet's ferneries | D |
A green sky's minor thirds | D |
To live I think of these | D |
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Of ice and glass the tinkle | B |
Pellucid silver shrill | B |
Peaches without a wrinkle | B |
Cherries and snow at will | B |
From china bowls that fill | B |
The senses with a sweet | C |
Incuriousness of heat | C |
A melon's dripping sherds | D |
Cream clotted strawberries | D |
Dusk dairies set with curds | D |
To live I think of these | D |
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Vale lily and periwinkle | B |
Wet stone crop on the sill | B |
The look of leaves a twinkle | B |
With windlets clear and still | B |
The feel of a forest rill | B |
That wimples fresh and fleet | C |
About one's naked feet | C |
The muzzles of drinking herds | D |
Lush flags and bulrushes | D |
The chirp of rain bound birds | D |
To live I think of these | D |
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Envoy | E |
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Dark aisles new packs of cards | D |
Mermaidens' tails cool swards | D |
Dawn dews and starlit seas | D |
White marbles whiter words | D |
To live I think of these | D |
William Ernest Henley
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