In Memory Of W.b. Yeats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFE GHHHH IHCFHH HHJHKL MHNOEPFE A QEFRHHSHHS A TTAF UUVV HHAA WWHH HHHH XXHHI | A |
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He disappeared in the dead of winter | B |
The brooks were frozen the airports almost deserted | C |
The snow disfigured the public statues | D |
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day | E |
What instruments we have agree | F |
The day of his death was a dark cold day | E |
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Far from his illness | G |
The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests | H |
The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays | H |
By mourning tongues | H |
The death of the poet was kept from his poems | H |
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But for him it was his last afternoon as himself | I |
An afternoon of nurses and rumours | H |
The provinces of his body revolted | C |
The squares of his mind were empty | F |
Silence invaded the suburbs | H |
The current of his feeling failed he became his admirers | H |
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Now he is scattered among a hundred cities | H |
And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections | H |
To find his happiness in another kind of wood | J |
And be punished under a foreign code of conscience | H |
The words of a dead man | K |
Are modified in the guts of the living | L |
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But in the importance and noise of to morrow | M |
When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse | H |
And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed | N |
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom | O |
A few thousand will think of this day | E |
As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual | P |
What instruments we have agree | F |
The day of his death was a dark cold day | E |
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II | A |
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You were silly like us your gift survived it all | Q |
The parish of rich women physical decay | E |
Yourself Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry | F |
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still | R |
For poetry makes nothing happen it survives | H |
In the valley of its making where executives | H |
Would never want to tamper flows on south | S |
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs | H |
Raw towns that we believe and die in it survives | H |
A way of happening a mouth | S |
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III | A |
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Earth receive an honoured guest | T |
William Yeats is laid to rest | T |
Let the Irish vessel lie | A |
Emptied of its poetry | F |
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In the nightmare of the dark | U |
All the dogs of Europe bark | U |
And the living nations wait | V |
Each sequestered in its hate | V |
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Intellectual disgrace | H |
Stares from every human face | H |
And the seas of pity lie | A |
Locked and frozen in each eye | A |
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Follow poet follow right | W |
To the bottom of the night | W |
With your unconstraining voice | H |
Still persuade us to rejoice | H |
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With the farming of a verse | H |
Make a vineyard of the curse | H |
Sing of human unsuccess | H |
In a rapture of distress | H |
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In the deserts of the heart | X |
Let the healing fountains start | X |
In the prison of his days | H |
Teach the free man how to praise | H |
W. H. Auden
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