Ballade Of Youth And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCDC ABABBCDC E BBCC

Spring at her height on a morn at primeA
Sails that laugh from a flying squallB
Pomp of harmony rapture of rhymeA
Youth is the sign of them one and allB
Winter sunsets and leaves that fallB
An empty flagon a folded pageC
A tumble down wheel a tattered ballB
These are a type of the world of AgeC
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Bells that clash in a gaudy chimeA
Swords that clatter in onsets tallB
The words that ring and the fames that climbA
Youth is the sign of them one and allB
Hymnals old in a dusty stallB
A bald blind bird in a crazy cageC
The scene of a faded festivalD
These are a type of the world of AgeC
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Hours that strut as the heirs of timeA
Deeds whose rumour's a clarion callB
Songs where the singers their souls sublimeA
Youth is the sign of them one and allB
A staff that rests in a nook of wallB
A reeling battle a rusted gageC
The chant of a nearing funeralD
These are a type of the world of AgeC
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EnvoyE
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Struggle and turmoil revel and brawlB
Youth is the sign of them one and allB
A smouldering hearth and a silent stageC
These are a type of the world of AgeC

William Ernest Henley



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