A Memory Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACBA DEFDFED GHIJIHK| The moments passed as at a play | A |
| I had the wisdom love brings forth | B |
| I had my share of mother wit | C |
| And yet for all that I could say | A |
| And though I had her praise for it | C |
| A cloud blown from the cut throat North | B |
| Suddenly hid Love's moon away | A |
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| Believing every word I said | D |
| I praised her body and her mind | E |
| Till pride had made her eyes grow bright | F |
| And pleasure made her cheeks grow red | D |
| And vanity her footfall light | F |
| Yet we for all that praise could find | E |
| Nothing but darkness overhead | D |
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| We sat as silent as a stone | G |
| We knew though she'd not said a word | H |
| That even the best of love must die | I |
| And had been savagely undone | J |
| Were it not that Love upon the cry | I |
| Of a most ridiculous little bird | H |
| Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon | K |
William Butler Yeats
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