La Fraisne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GCCH IHJKLK M KNNF OOJJHJHPNNQJE EAR JJJSJ A TD A DAJU| For I was a gaunt grave councillor | A |
| Being in all things wise and very old | B |
| But I have put aside this folly and the cold | B |
| That old age weareth for a cloak | C |
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| I was quite strong at least they said so | D |
| The young men at the sword play | E |
| But I have put aside this folly being gay | E |
| In another fashion that more suiteth me | F |
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| I have curled 'mid the boles of the ash wood | G |
| I have hidden my face where the oak | C |
| Spread his leaves over me and the yoke | C |
| Of the old ways of men have I cast aside | H |
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| By the still pool of Mar nan otha | I |
| Have I found me a bride | H |
| That was a dog wood tree some syne | J |
| She hath called me from mine old ways | K |
| She hath hushed my rancour of council | L |
| Bidding me praise | K |
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| Naught but the wind that flutters in the leaves | M |
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| She hath drawn me from mine old ways | K |
| Till men say that I am mad | N |
| But I have seen the sorrow of men and am glad | N |
| For I know that the wailing and bitterness are a folly | F |
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| And I I have put aside all folly and all grief | O |
| I wrapped my tears in an ellum leaf | O |
| And left them under a stone | J |
| And now men call me mad because I have thrown | J |
| All folly from me putting it aside | H |
| To leave the old barren ways of men | J |
| Because my bride | H |
| Is a pool of the wood and | P |
| Though all men say that I am mad | N |
| It is only that I am glad | N |
| Very glad for my bride hath toward me a great love | Q |
| That is sweeter than the love of women | J |
| That plague and burn and drive one away | E |
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| Aie e 'Tis true that I am gay | E |
| Quite gay for I have her alone here | A |
| And no man troubleth us | R |
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| Once when I was among the young men | J |
| And they said I was quite strong among the young men | J |
| Once there was a woman | J |
| but I forget she was | S |
| I hope she will not come again | J |
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| I do not remember | A |
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| I think she hurt me once but | T |
| That was very long ago | D |
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| I do not like to remember things any more | A |
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| I like one little band of winds that blow | D |
| In the ash trees here | A |
| For we are quite alone | J |
| Here 'mid the ash trees | U |
Ezra Pound
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