An Image From A Past Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCAB DBEEEFB GDHHHGD IJKKKIJ LJMMMNJ OPQQQLP| He Never until this night have I been stirred | A |
| The elaborate starlight throws a reflection | B |
| On the dark stream | C |
| Till all the eddies gleam | C |
| And thereupon there comes that scream | C |
| From terrified invisible beast or bird | A |
| Image of poignant recollection | B |
| - | |
| She An image of my heart that is smitten through | D |
| Out of all likelihood or reason | B |
| And when at last | E |
| Youth's bitterness being past | E |
| I had thought that all my days were cast | E |
| Amid most lovely places smitten as though | F |
| It had not learned its lesson | B |
| - | |
| He Why have you laid your hands upon my eyes | G |
| What can have suddenly alarmed you | D |
| Whereon 'twere best | H |
| My eyes should never rest | H |
| What is there but the slowly fading west | H |
| The river imaging the flashing skies | G |
| All that to this moment charmed you | D |
| - | |
| She A Sweetheart from another life floats there | I |
| As though she had been forced to linger | J |
| From vague distress | K |
| Or arrogant loveliness | K |
| Merely to loosen out a tress | K |
| Among the starry eddies of her hair | I |
| Upon the paleness of a finger | J |
| - | |
| He But why should you grow suddenly afraid | L |
| And start I at your shoulder | J |
| Imagining | M |
| That any night could bring | M |
| An image up or anything | M |
| Even to eyes that beauty had driven mad | N |
| But images to make me fonder | J |
| - | |
| She Now She has thrown her arms above her head | O |
| Whether she threw them up to flout me | P |
| Or but to find | Q |
| Now that no fingers bind | Q |
| That her hair streams upon the wind | Q |
| I do not know that know I am afraid | L |
| Of the hovering thing night brought me | P |
William Butler Yeats
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about An Image From A Past Life poem by William Butler Yeats
Best Poems of William Butler Yeats