Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCADCEFDEFWere you but lying cold and dead | A |
And lights were paling out of the West | B |
You would come hither and bend your head | A |
And I would lay my head on your breast | B |
And you would murmur tender words | C |
Forgiving me because you were dead | A |
Nor would you rise and hasten away | D |
Though you have the will of the wild birds | C |
But know your hair was bound and wound | E |
About the stars and moon and sun | F |
O would beloved that you lay | D |
Under the dock leaves in the ground | E |
While lights were paling one by one | F |
William Butler Yeats
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