A Statesman's Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJ KLMLNOPQRHSHJ TUVWXYLYQZKA2J| I lived among great houses | A |
| Riches drove out rank | B |
| Base drove out the better blood | C |
| And mind and body shrank | B |
| No Oscar ruled the table | D |
| But I'd a troop of friends | E |
| That knowing better talk had gone | F |
| Talked of odds and ends | E |
| Some knew what ailed the world | G |
| But never said a thing | H |
| So I have picked a better trade | I |
| And night and morning sing | H |
| Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
| - | |
| Am I a great Lord Chancellor | K |
| That slept upon the Sack | L |
| Commanding officer that tore | M |
| The khaki from his back | L |
| Or am I de Valera | N |
| Or the King of Greece | O |
| Or the man that made the motors | P |
| Ach call me what you please | Q |
| Here's a Montenegrin lute | R |
| And its old sole string | H |
| Makes me sweet music | S |
| And I delight to sing | H |
| Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
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| With boys and girls about him | T |
| With any sort of clothes | U |
| With a hat out of fashion | V |
| With Old patched shoes | W |
| With a ragged bandit cloak | X |
| With an eye like a hawk | Y |
| With a stiff straight back | L |
| With a strutting turkey walk | Y |
| With a bag full of pennies | Q |
| With a monkey on a chain | Z |
| With a great cock's feather | K |
| With an old foul tune | A2 |
| Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
William Butler Yeats
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