Broken Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCABDEFEGEG HICJH IKJCLMN OPQOREPSRE MASAI| There is grey in your hair | A |
| Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath | B |
| When you are passing | C |
| But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing | C |
| Because it was your prayer | A |
| Recovered him upon the bed of death | B |
| For your sole sake that all heart's ache have known | D |
| And given to others all heart's ache | E |
| From meagre girlhood's putting on | F |
| Burdensome beauty for your sole sake | E |
| Heaven has put away the stroke of her doom | G |
| So great her portion in that peace you make | E |
| By merely walking in a room | G |
| - | |
| Your beauty can but leave among us | H |
| Vague memories nothing but memories | I |
| A young man when the old men are done talking | C |
| Will say to an old man 'Tell me of that lady | J |
| The poet stubborn with his passion sang us | H |
| When age might well have chilled his blood ' | - |
| - | |
| Vague memories nothing but memories | I |
| But in the grave all all shall be renewed | K |
| The certainty that I shall see that lady | J |
| Leaning or standing or walking | C |
| In the first loveliness of womanhood | L |
| And with the fervour of my youthful eyes | M |
| Has set me muttering like a fool | N |
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| You are more beautiful than any one | O |
| And yet your body had a flaw | P |
| Your small hands were not beautiful | Q |
| And I am afraid that you will run | O |
| And paddle to the wrist | R |
| In that mysterious always brimming lake | E |
| Where those What have obeyed the holy law | P |
| paddle and are perfect Leave unchanged | S |
| The hands that I have kissed | R |
| For old sake's sake | E |
| - | |
| The last stroke of midnight dies | M |
| All day in the one chair | A |
| From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged | S |
| In rambling talk with an image of air | A |
| Vague memories nothing but memories | I |
William Butler Yeats
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