Adam's Curse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJJKKL HMMBBNNHOPPQQRRSOTU| WE sat together at one summer's end | A |
| That beautiful mild woman your close friend | A |
| And you and I and talked of poetry | B |
| I said 'A line will take us hours maybe | B |
| Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought | C |
| Our stitching and unstitching has been naught | C |
| Better go down upon your marrow bones | D |
| And scrub a kitchen pavement or break stones | D |
| Like an old pauper in all kinds of weather | E |
| For to articulate sweet sounds together | E |
| Is to work harder than all these and yet | F |
| Be thought an idler by the noisy set | F |
| Of bankers schoolmasters and clergymen | G |
| The martyrs call the world ' | H |
| And thereupon | I |
| That beautiful mild woman for whose sake | J |
| There's many a one shall find out all heartache | J |
| On finding that her voice is sweet and low | K |
| Replied 'To be born woman is to know | K |
| Although they do not talk of it at school | L |
| That we must labour to be beautiful ' | H |
| I said 'It's certain there is no fine thing | M |
| Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring | M |
| There have been lovers who thought love should be | B |
| So much compounded of high courtesy | B |
| That they would sigh and quote with learned looks | N |
| precedents out of beautiful old books | N |
| Yet now it seems an idle trade enough ' | H |
| We sat grown quiet at the name of love | O |
| We saw the last embers of daylight die | P |
| And in the trembling blue green of the sky | P |
| A moon worn as if it had been a shell | Q |
| Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell | Q |
| About the stars and broke in days and years | R |
| I had a thought for no one's but your ears | R |
| That you were beautiful and that I strove | S |
| To love you in the old high way of love | O |
| That it had all seemed happy and yet we'd grown | T |
| As weary hearted as that hollow moon | U |
William Butler Yeats
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