At Algeciras - A Meditaton Upon Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGIJJ| The heron billed pale cattle birds | A |
| That feed on some foul parasite | B |
| Of the Moroccan flocks and herds | A |
| Cross the narrow Straits to light | B |
| In the rich midnight of the garden trees | C |
| Till the dawn break upon those mingled seas | C |
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| Often at evening when a boy | D |
| Would I carry to a friend | E |
| Hoping more substantial joy | D |
| Did an older mind commend | E |
| Not such as are in Newton's metaphor | F |
| But actual shells of Rosses' level shore | F |
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| Greater glory in the Sun | G |
| An evening chill upon the air | H |
| Bid imagination run | G |
| Much on the Great Questioner | I |
| What He can question what if questioned I | J |
| Can with a fitting confidence reply | J |
William Butler Yeats
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