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