A First Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDB EFGHHG IIGCCG| I admit the briar | A |
| Entangled in my hair | B |
| Did not injure me | C |
| My blenching and trembling | D |
| Nothing but dissembling | D |
| Nothing but coquetry | B |
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| I long for truth and yet | E |
| I cannot stay from that | F |
| My better self disowns | G |
| For a man's attention | H |
| Brings such satisfaction | H |
| To the craving in my bones | G |
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| Brightness that I pull back | I |
| From the Zodiac | I |
| Why those questioning eyes | G |
| That are fixed upon me | C |
| What can they do but shun me | C |
| If empty night replies | G |
William Butler Yeats
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