Ballade Of Truisms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAABBBABBC AABAABBB ABBA AABAABBBABBA D BBABBA| Gold or silver every day | A |
| Dies to gray | A |
| There are knots in every skein | B |
| Hours of work and hours of play | A |
| Fade away | A |
| Into one immense Inane | B |
| Shadow and substance chaff and grain | B |
| Are as vain | B |
| As the foam or as the spray | A |
| Life goes crooning faint and fain | B |
| One refrain | B |
| 'If it could be always May ' | C |
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| Though the earth be green and gay | A |
| Though they say | A |
| Man the cup of heaven may drain | B |
| Though his little world to sway | A |
| He display | A |
| Hoard on hoard of pith and brain | B |
| Autumn brings a mist and rain | B |
| That constrain | B |
| - | |
| Him and his to know decay | A |
| Where undimmed the lights that wane | B |
| Would remain | B |
| If it could be always May | A |
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| Yea alas must turn to nay | A |
| Flesh to clay | A |
| Chance and Time are ever twain | B |
| Men may scoff and men may pray | A |
| But they pay | A |
| Every pleasure with a pain | B |
| Life may soar and Fortune deign | B |
| To explain | B |
| Where her prizes hide and stay | A |
| But we lack the lusty train | B |
| We should gain | B |
| If it could be always May | A |
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| Envoy | D |
| - | |
| Time the pedagogue his cane | B |
| Might retain | B |
| But his charges all would stray | A |
| Truanting in every lane | B |
| Jack with Jane | B |
| If it could be always May | A |
William Ernest Henley
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