I was reading about rhyme schemes the other day and came across one I had never heard of. A A A X, three lines that rhyme followed by one that doesn't.
Interesting scheme. The article went on to say how popular it was especially in ballads. Why hadn't I ever ran across this? Then I was listing to one of my favorite Avett Brothers songs.......
The Ballad Of Love And Hate
Scott Avett, Seth Avett, Robert Crawford
Love writes a letter and sends it to hate
My vacations ending. I'm coming home late
The weather was fine and the ocean was great
and I can't wait to see you again
Hate reads the letter and throws it away
No one here cares if you go or you stay
I barely even noticed that you were away
I'll see you or I won't whatever
Love sings a song as she sails through the sky
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes
And everyone knows it whenever she flies
and also when she comes down
Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street
Every stranger and drifter he greets
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
with a serious look on his face
Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow
Carrying with her the good things we know
A reason to live and a reason to grow
To trust to hope to care
Hate sits alone on the hood of his car
Without much regard to the moon or the stars
Lazily killing the last of a jar
of the strongest stuff you can drink
Love takes a taxi a young man drives
As soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes
But tears follow after, at the end of the ride
cause he might never see her again.
Hate gets home lucky to still be alive
He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive
The clock in the kitchen says 2:55
And the clock in the kitchen is slow
Love has been waiting, patient and kind
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign
That the one that she cares for, who's out of his mind
Will make it back safe to her arms
Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door
Weary head hung, eyes to the floor
He says Love I'm sorry and she says What for
I'm your and that's it whatever
I should not have been gone for so long
I'm your's and that's it forever
You're mine and that's it forever
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