Blood And The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEFGHIIJ A FFF KKK LLL MMM NNN CCC A OPQRSCTUVKKO WFFWCXXCUROY| I | A |
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| Blessed be this place | B |
| More blessed still this tower | C |
| A bloody arrogant power | C |
| Rose out of the race | B |
| Uttering mastering it | D |
| Rose like these walls from these | E |
| Storm beaten cottages | F |
| In mockery I have set | G |
| A powerful emblem up | H |
| And sing it rhyme upon rhyme | I |
| In mockery of a time | I |
| Half dead at the top | J |
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| II | A |
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| Alexandria's was a beacon tower and Babylon's | F |
| An image of the moving heavens a log book of the sun's journey and the moon's | F |
| And Shelley had his towers thought's crowned powers he called them once | F |
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| I declare this tower is my symbol I declare | K |
| This winding gyring spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair | K |
| That Goldsmith and the Dean Berkeley and Burke have travelled there | K |
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| Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind | L |
| Because the heart in his blood sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind | L |
| Goldsmith deliberately sipping at the honey pot of his mind | L |
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| And haughtier headed Burke that proved the State a tree | M |
| That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds century after century | M |
| Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality | M |
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| And God appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream | N |
| That this pragmatical preposterous pig of a world its farrow that so solid seem | N |
| Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme | N |
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| Saeva Indignatio and the labourer's hire | C |
| The strength that gives our blood and state magnanimity of its own desire | C |
| Everything that is not God consumed with intellectual fire | C |
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| III | A |
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| The purity of the unclouded moon | O |
| Has flung its atrowy shaft upon the floor | P |
| Seven centuries have passed and it is pure | Q |
| The blood of innocence has left no stain | R |
| There on blood saturated ground have stood | S |
| Soldier assassin executioner | C |
| Whether for daily pittance or in blind fear | T |
| Or out of abstract hatred and shed blood | U |
| But could not cast a single jet thereon | V |
| Odour of blood on the ancestral stair | K |
| And we that have shed none must gather there | K |
| And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon | O |
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| IV | - |
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| Upon the dusty glittering windows cling | W |
| And seem to cling upon the moonlit skies | F |
| Tortoiseshell butterflies peacock butterflies | F |
| A couple of night moths are on the wing | W |
| Is every modern nation like the tower | C |
| Half dead at the top No matter what I said | X |
| For wisdom is the property of the dead | X |
| A something incompatible with life and power | C |
| Like everything that has the stain of blood | U |
| A property of the living but no stain | R |
| Can come upon the visage of the moon | O |
| When it has looked in glory from a cloud | Y |
William Butler Yeats
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