Summary Of Ballade Of Worldly Wealth: Poem Explication

Poem Explication:
In the poem, “Ballade of Worldly Wealth”, the author, Andrew Lang uses repetition within lines that contain parallel constructions. I think that the author chose to use repetition for the rhetorical pattern as a way to explain his ideas, feelings and tone about the poem’s main concept; money. After reading this ballade, one can easily deduct that the author believes that money can corrupt/destroy an individual’s life or enhance it, depending on how the individual uses said money. Despite the fact that the author mentions/implies that money can either make life better or worse, it is obvious that he feels negatively towards money overall.
This poem is comprised of three stanzas, with each stanza containing eight rhyming lines. These rhyming lines make up the parallel construction, which was the authors way of elaborating on the importance of his repetition and the true meaning of his words. Parallel construction can be found even within the first

In addition to the focus on the negative impact, the author also points out that money (and the things it can buy/attain) cannot buy/guarantee a person youth, health and “paradise” meaning internal happiness with themselves and life itself.
In the second stanza the author, Andrew Lang, this time focuses more so on the possibility of positive impacts from money in the following lines;
“Money maketh festival, Wine she buys, and beds can strow,
Round the necks of captains tall, Money wins them chains to throw,
Marches solciers to and fro, Gaineth ladies with sweet