Double Ballade Of The Nothingness Of Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEAEF ABABBGGEAEA ABABBGGEAE ABABBGGEAEA ABABBGGEAE ABABBGGEAE H GGAEE

The big teetotum twirlsA
And epochs wax and waneB
As chance subsides or swirlsA
But of the loss and gainB
The sum is always plainB
Read on the mighty pallC
The weed of funeralD
That covers praise and blameE
The isms and the anitiesA
Magnificence and shameE
'O Vanity of Vanities 'F
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The Fates are subtile girlsA
They give us chaff for grainB
And Time the Thunderer hurlsA
Like bolted death disdainB
At all that heart and brainB
Conceive or great or smallG
Upon this earthly ballG
Would you be knight and dameE
Or woo the sweet humanitiesA
Or illustrate a nameE
O Vanity of VanitiesA
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We sound the sea for pearlsA
Or drown them in a drainB
We flute it with the merlesA
Or tug and sweat and strainB
We grovel or we reignB
We saunter or we brawlG
We answer or we callG
We search the stars for FameE
Or sink her subterranitiesA
The legend's still the sameE
'O Vanity of Vanities '-
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Here at the wine one birlsA
There some one clanks a chainB
The flag that this man furlsA
That man to float is fainB
Pleasure gives place to painB
These in the kennel crawlG
While others take the wallG
She has a glorious aimE
He lives for the inanitiesA
What comes of every claimE
O Vanity of VanitiesA
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Alike are clods and earlsA
For sot and seer and swainB
For emperors and for churlsA
For antidote and baneB
There is but one refrainB
But one for king and thrallG
For David and for SaulG
For fleet of foot and lameE
For pieties and profanitiesA
The picture and the frameE
'O Vanity of Vanities '-
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Life is a smoke that curlsA
Curls in a flickering skeinB
That winds and whisks and whirlsA
A figment thin and vainB
Into the vast InaneB
One end for hut and hallG
One end for cell and stallG
Burned in one common flameE
Are wisdoms and insanitiesA
For this alone we cameE
'O Vanity of Vanities '-
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EnvoyH
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Prince pride must have a fallG
What is the worth of allG
Your state's supreme urbanitiesA
Bad at the best's the gameE
Well might the Sage exclaimE
'O Vanity of Vanities '-

William Ernest Henley



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