A Man Young And Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHIJKLMCNOPQRO ANSTNTUTANVNWN AXYJNZA2Z BPB2FC2FAHD2PE2PFP BF2F2G2H2G2I2G2G2JG2 I AJ2K2L2M2L2N2L2O2P2O 2P2M2P2PO2ZO2Q2 AR2S2G2G2G2T2G2JG2AG 2AG2U2V2 JZG2AG2 AO2BG2LG2F2W2X2W2O2B Y2BZ2O2A3O2 Z2G2B3O2O2O2Z2O2WP2G 2P2C3P2G2IZ2LD3Z Z2Z2PO2AO2P2O2Q2AV2B JA BBV2V2T2BBBO2N2O2O2B ABBI | A |
First Love | B |
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THOUGH nurtured like the sailing moon | C |
In beauty's murderous brood | D |
She walked awhile and blushed awhile | E |
And on my pathway stood | F |
Until I thought her body bore | G |
A heart of flesh and blood | H |
But since I laid a hand thereon | I |
And found a heart of stone | J |
I have attempted many things | K |
And not a thing is done | L |
For every hand is lunatic | M |
That travels on the moon | C |
She smiled and that transfigured me | N |
And left me but a lout | O |
Maundering here and maundering there | P |
Emptier of thought | Q |
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars | R |
When the moon sails out | O |
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II | A |
Human Dignity | N |
Like the moon her kindness is | S |
If kindness I may call | T |
What has no comprehension in't | N |
But is the same for all | T |
As though my sorrow were a scene | U |
Upon a painted wall | T |
So like a bit of stone I lie | A |
Under a broken tree | N |
I could recover if I shrieked | V |
My heart's agony | N |
To passing bird but I am dumb | W |
From human dignity | N |
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III | A |
The Mermaid | X |
A mermaid found a swimming lad | Y |
Picked him for her own | J |
Pressed her body to his body | N |
Laughed and plunging down | Z |
Forgot in cruel happiness | A2 |
That even lovers drown | Z |
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IV | B |
The Death of the Hare | P |
I have pointed out the yelling pack | B2 |
The hare leap to the wood | F |
And when I pass a compliment | C2 |
Rejoice as lover should | F |
At the drooping of an eye | A |
At the mantling of the blood | H |
Then' suddenly my heart is wrung | D2 |
By her distracted air | P |
And I remember wildness lost | E2 |
And after swept from there | P |
Am set down standing in the wood | F |
At the death of the hare | P |
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V | B |
The Empty Cup | F2 |
A crazy man that found a cup | F2 |
When all but dead of thirst | G2 |
Hardly dared to wet his mouth | H2 |
Imagining moon accursed | G2 |
That another mouthful | I2 |
And his beating heart would burst | G2 |
October last I found it too | G2 |
But found it dry as bone | J |
And for that reason am I crazed | G2 |
And my sleep is gone | I |
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VI | A |
His Memories | J2 |
We should be hidden from their eyes | K2 |
Being but holy shows | L2 |
And bodies broken like a thorn | M2 |
Whereon the bleak north blows | L2 |
To think of buried Hector | N2 |
And that none living knows | L2 |
The women take so little stock | O2 |
In what I do or say | P2 |
They'd sooner leave their cosseting | O2 |
To hear a jackass bray | P2 |
My arms are like the twisted thorn | M2 |
And yet there beauty lay | P2 |
The first of all the tribe lay there | P |
And did such pleasure take | O2 |
She who had brought great Hector down | Z |
And put all Troy to wreck | O2 |
That she cried into this ear | Q2 |
'Strike me if I shriek ' | - |
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VII | A |
The Friends of his Youth | R2 |
Laughter not time destroyed my voice | S2 |
And put that crack in it | G2 |
And when the moon's pot bellied | G2 |
I get a laughing fit | G2 |
For that old Madge comes down the lane | T2 |
A stone upon her breast | G2 |
And a cloak wrapped about the stone | J |
And she can get no rest | G2 |
With singing hush and hush a bye | A |
She that has been wild | G2 |
And barren as a breaking wave | A |
Thinks that the stone's a child | G2 |
And Peter that had great affairs | U2 |
And was a pushing man | V2 |
Shrieks 'I am King of the Peacocks ' | - |
And perches on a stone | J |
And then I laugh till tears run down | Z |
And the heart thumps at my side | G2 |
Remembering that her shriek was love | A |
And that he shrieks from pride | G2 |
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VIII | A |
Summer and Spring | O2 |
We sat under an old thorn tree | B |
And talked away the night | G2 |
Told all that had been said or done | L |
Since first we saw the light | G2 |
And when we talked of growing up | F2 |
Knew that we'd halved a soul | W2 |
And fell the one in t'other's arms | X2 |
That we might make it whole | W2 |
Then peter had a murdering look | O2 |
For it seemed that he and she | B |
Had spoken of their childish days | Y2 |
Under that very tree | B |
O what a bursting out there was | Z2 |
And what a blossoming | O2 |
When we had all the summer time | A3 |
And she had all the spring | O2 |
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IX | Z2 |
The Secrets of the Old | G2 |
I have old women's sectets now | B3 |
That had those of the young | O2 |
Madge tells me what I dared not think | O2 |
When my blood was strong | O2 |
And what had drowned a lover once | Z2 |
Sounds like an old song | O2 |
Though Margery is stricken dumb | W |
If thrown in Madge's way | P2 |
We three make up a solitude | G2 |
For none alive to day | P2 |
Can know the stories that we know | C3 |
Or say the things we say | P2 |
How such a man pleased women most | G2 |
Of all that are gone | I |
How such a pair loved many years | Z2 |
And such a pair but one | L |
Stories of the bed of straw | D3 |
Or the bed of down | Z |
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X | Z2 |
His Wildness | Z2 |
O bid me mount and sail up there | P |
Amid the cloudy wrack | O2 |
For peg and Meg and Paris' love | A |
That had so straight a back | O2 |
Are gone away and some that stay | P2 |
Have changed their silk for sack | O2 |
Were I but there and none to hear | Q2 |
I'd have a peacock cry | A |
For that is natural to a man | V2 |
That lives in memory | B |
Being all alone I'd nurse a stone | J |
And sing it lullaby | A |
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XI | B |
From 'Oedipus at Colonus' | B |
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span | V2 |
Cease to remember the delights of youth travel wearied aged man | V2 |
Delight becomes death longing if all longing else be vain | T2 |
Even from that delight memory treasures so | B |
Death despair division of families all entanglements of mankind grow | B |
As that old wandering beggar and these God hated children know | B |
In the long echoing street the laughing dancers throng | O2 |
The bride is catried to the bridegroom's chamber | N2 |
through torchlight and tumultuous song | O2 |
I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or long | O2 |
Never to have lived is best ancient writers say | B |
Never to have drawn the breath of life never to have | A |
looked into the eye of day | B |
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away | B |
William Butler Yeats
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