Double Ballad Of Life And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC| Fools may pine and sots may swill | A |
| Cynics gibe and prophets rail | B |
| Moralists may scourge and drill | A |
| Preachers prose and fainthearts quail | B |
| Let them whine or threat or wail | B |
| Till the touch of Circumstance | C |
| Down to darkness sink the scale | B |
| Fate s a fiddler Life s a dance | C |
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| What if skies be wan and chill | A |
| What if winds be harsh and stale | B |
| Presently the east will thrill | A |
| And the sad and shrunken sail | B |
| Bellying with a kindly gale | B |
| Bear you sunwards while your chance | C |
| Sends you back the hopeful hail | B |
| Fate s a fiddler Life s a dance | C |
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| Idle shot or coming bill | A |
| Hapless love or broken bail | B |
| Gulp it never chew your pill | A |
| And if Burgundy should fail | B |
| Try the humbler pot of ail | B |
| Over all is heaven s expanse | C |
| Gold s to find among the shale | B |
| Fate s a fiddler Life s a dance | C |
William Ernest Henley
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