Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-print - To W. A. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCCC ACACCCCC ACACCCCC D CCCC| Was I a Samurai renowned | A |
| Two sworded fierce immense of bow | B |
| A histrion angular and profound | A |
| A priest a porter Child although | C |
| I have forgotten clean I know | C |
| That in the shade of Fujisan | C |
| What time the cherry orchards blow | C |
| I loved you once in old Japan | C |
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| As here you loiter flowing gowned | A |
| And hugely sashed with pins a row | C |
| Your quaint head as with flamelets crowned | A |
| Demure inviting even so | C |
| When merry maids in Miyako | C |
| To feel the sweet o' the year began | C |
| And green gardens to overflow | C |
| I loved you once in old Japan | C |
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| Clear shine the hills the rice fields round | A |
| Two cranes are circling sleepy and slow | C |
| A blue canal the lake's blue bound | A |
| Breaks at the bamboo bridge and lo | C |
| Touched with the sundown's spirit and glow | C |
| I see you turn with flirted fan | C |
| Against the plum tree's bloomy snow | C |
| I loved you once in old Japan | C |
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| Envoy | D |
| - | |
| Dear 'twas a dozen lives ago | C |
| But that I was a lucky man | C |
| The Toyokuni here will show | C |
| I loved you once in old Japan | C |
William Ernest Henley
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