A Man Young And Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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IA
First LoveB
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THOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonC
In beauty's murderous broodD
She walked awhile and blushed awhileE
And on my pathway stoodF
Until I thought her body boreG
A heart of flesh and bloodH
But since I laid a hand thereonI
And found a heart of stoneJ
I have attempted many thingsK
And not a thing is doneL
For every hand is lunaticM
That travels on the moonC
She smiled and that transfigured meN
And left me but a loutO
Maundering here and maundering thereP
Emptier of thoughtQ
Than the heavenly circuit of its starsR
When the moon sails outO
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IIA
Human DignityN
Like the moon her kindness isS
If kindness I may callT
What has no comprehension in'tN
But is the same for allT
As though my sorrow were a sceneU
Upon a painted wallT
So like a bit of stone I lieA
Under a broken treeN
I could recover if I shriekedV
My heart's agonyN
To passing bird but I am dumbW
From human dignityN
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IIIA
The MermaidX
A mermaid found a swimming ladY
Picked him for her ownJ
Pressed her body to his bodyN
Laughed and plunging downZ
Forgot in cruel happinessA2
That even lovers drownZ
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IVB
The Death of the HareP
I have pointed out the yelling packB2
The hare leap to the woodF
And when I pass a complimentC2
Rejoice as lover shouldF
At the drooping of an eyeA
At the mantling of the bloodH
Then' suddenly my heart is wrungD2
By her distracted airP
And I remember wildness lostE2
And after swept from thereP
Am set down standing in the woodF
At the death of the hareP
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VB
The Empty CupF2
A crazy man that found a cupF2
When all but dead of thirstG2
Hardly dared to wet his mouthH2
Imagining moon accursedG2
That another mouthfulI2
And his beating heart would burstG2
October last I found it tooG2
But found it dry as boneJ
And for that reason am I crazedG2
And my sleep is goneI
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VIA
His MemoriesJ2
We should be hidden from their eyesK2
Being but holy showsL2
And bodies broken like a thornM2
Whereon the bleak north blowsL2
To think of buried HectorN2
And that none living knowsL2
The women take so little stockO2
In what I do or sayP2
They'd sooner leave their cossetingO2
To hear a jackass brayP2
My arms are like the twisted thornM2
And yet there beauty layP2
The first of all the tribe lay thereP
And did such pleasure takeO2
She who had brought great Hector downZ
And put all Troy to wreckO2
That she cried into this earQ2
'Strike me if I shriek '-
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VIIA
The Friends of his YouthR2
Laughter not time destroyed my voiceS2
And put that crack in itG2
And when the moon's pot belliedG2
I get a laughing fitG2
For that old Madge comes down the laneT2
A stone upon her breastG2
And a cloak wrapped about the stoneJ
And she can get no restG2
With singing hush and hush a byeA
She that has been wildG2
And barren as a breaking waveA
Thinks that the stone's a childG2
And Peter that had great affairsU2
And was a pushing manV2
Shrieks 'I am King of the Peacocks '-
And perches on a stoneJ
And then I laugh till tears run downZ
And the heart thumps at my sideG2
Remembering that her shriek was loveA
And that he shrieks from prideG2
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VIIIA
Summer and SpringO2
We sat under an old thorn treeB
And talked away the nightG2
Told all that had been said or doneL
Since first we saw the lightG2
And when we talked of growing upF2
Knew that we'd halved a soulW2
And fell the one in t'other's armsX2
That we might make it wholeW2
Then peter had a murdering lookO2
For it seemed that he and sheB
Had spoken of their childish daysY2
Under that very treeB
O what a bursting out there wasZ2
And what a blossomingO2
When we had all the summer timeA3
And she had all the springO2
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IXZ2
The Secrets of the OldG2
I have old women's sectets nowB3
That had those of the youngO2
Madge tells me what I dared not thinkO2
When my blood was strongO2
And what had drowned a lover onceZ2
Sounds like an old songO2
Though Margery is stricken dumbW
If thrown in Madge's wayP2
We three make up a solitudeG2
For none alive to dayP2
Can know the stories that we knowC3
Or say the things we sayP2
How such a man pleased women mostG2
Of all that are goneI
How such a pair loved many yearsZ2
And such a pair but oneL
Stories of the bed of strawD3
Or the bed of downZ
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XZ2
His WildnessZ2
O bid me mount and sail up thereP
Amid the cloudy wrackO2
For peg and Meg and Paris' loveA
That had so straight a backO2
Are gone away and some that stayP2
Have changed their silk for sackO2
Were I but there and none to hearQ2
I'd have a peacock cryA
For that is natural to a manV2
That lives in memoryB
Being all alone I'd nurse a stoneJ
And sing it lullabyA
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XIB
From 'Oedipus at Colonus'B
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer spanV2
Cease to remember the delights of youth travel wearied aged manV2
Delight becomes death longing if all longing else be vainT2
Even from that delight memory treasures soB
Death despair division of families all entanglements of mankind growB
As that old wandering beggar and these God hated children knowB
In the long echoing street the laughing dancers throngO2
The bride is catried to the bridegroom's chamberN2
through torchlight and tumultuous songO2
I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or longO2
Never to have lived is best ancient writers sayB
Never to have drawn the breath of life never to haveA
looked into the eye of dayB
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn awayB

William Butler Yeats



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