Double Ballade Of Life And Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCB ABABBCBC ABABBCB ABABBCB AAAAACAC D ACAC| 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 ' | - |
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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 ale | 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 |
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| Dull Sir Joskin sleeps his fill | A |
| Good Sir Galahad seeks the Grail | B |
| Proud Sir Pertinax flaunts his frill | A |
| Hard Sir AEger dints his mail | B |
| And the while by hill and dale | B |
| Tristram's braveries gleam and glance | C |
| And his blithe horn tells its tale | B |
| 'Fate's a fiddler Life's a dance ' | - |
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| Araminta's grand and shrill | A |
| Delia's passionate and frail | B |
| Doris drives an earnest quill | A |
| Athanasia takes the veil | B |
| Wiser Phyllis o'er her pail | B |
| At the heart of all romance | C |
| Reading sings to Strephon's flail | B |
| 'Fate's a fiddler Life's a dance ' | - |
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| Every Jack must have his Jill | A |
| Even Johnson had his Thrale | A |
| Forward couples with a will | A |
| This the world is not a jail | A |
| Hear the music sprat and whale | A |
| Hands across retire advance | C |
| Though the doomsman's on your trail | A |
| Fate's a fiddler Life's a dance | C |
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| Envoy | D |
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| Boys and girls at slug and snail | A |
| And their kindred look askance | C |
| Pay your footing on the nail | A |
| Fate's a fiddler Life's a dance | C |
William Ernest Henley
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