A Bronze Head Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCD EFGFHII JKJKLM NBOBBPP| Here at right of the entrance this bronze head | A |
| Human superhuman a bird's round eye | B |
| Everything else withered and mummy dead | A |
| What great tomb haunter sweeps the distant sky | B |
| Something may linger there though all else die | B |
| And finds there nothing to make its tetror less | C |
| Hysterica passio of its own emptiness | D |
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| No dark tomb haunter once her form all full | E |
| As though with magnanimity of light | F |
| Yet a most gentle woman who can tell | G |
| Which of her forms has shown her substance right | F |
| Or maybe substance can be composite | H |
| profound McTaggart thought so and in a breath | I |
| A mouthful held the extreme of life and death | I |
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| But even at the starting post all sleek and new | J |
| I saw the wildness in her and I thought | K |
| A vision of terror that it must live through | J |
| Had shattered her soul Propinquity had brought | K |
| Imagiation to that pitch where it casts out | L |
| All that is not itself I had grown wild | M |
| And wandered murmuring everywhere 'My child my child ' | - |
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| Or else I thought her supernatural | N |
| As though a sterner eye looked through her eye | B |
| On this foul world in its decline and fall | O |
| On gangling stocks grown great great stocks run dry | B |
| Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty | B |
| Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave | P |
| And wondered what was left for massacre to save | P |
William Butler Yeats
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