An Acre Of Grass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FGHIJK LJMJNN OPLPIIPicture and book remain | A |
An acre of green grass | B |
For air and exercise | C |
Now strength of body goes | D |
Midnight an old house | E |
Where nothing stirs but a mouse | E |
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My temptation is quiet | F |
Here at life's end | G |
Neither loose imagination | H |
Nor the mill of the mind | I |
Consuming its rag and bonc | J |
Can make the truth known | K |
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Grant me an old man's frenzy | L |
Myself must I remake | J |
Till I am Timon and Lear | M |
Or that William Blake | J |
Who beat upon the wall | N |
Till Truth obeyed his call | N |
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A mind Michael Angelo knew | O |
That can pierce the clouds | P |
Or inspired by frenzy | L |
Shake the dead in their shrouds | P |
Forgotten else by mankind | I |
An old man's eagle mind | I |
William Butler Yeats
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