Byzantium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFD GGHIJKKJ LLMNOPPQ RRSTUVVU QQWXYZZY| The unpurged images of day recede | A |
| The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed | B |
| Night resonance recedes night walkers' song | C |
| After great cathedral gong | C |
| A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains | D |
| All that man is | E |
| All mere complexities | F |
| The fury and the mire of human veins | D |
| - | |
| Before me floats an image man or shade | G |
| Shade more than man more image than a shade | G |
| For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy cloth | H |
| May unwind the winding path | I |
| A mouth that has no moisture and no breath | J |
| Breathless mouths may summon | K |
| I hail the superhuman | K |
| I call it death in life and life in death | J |
| - | |
| Miracle bird or golden handiwork | L |
| More miraclc than bird or handiwork | L |
| Planted on the star lit golden bough | M |
| Can like the cocks of Hades crow | N |
| Or by the moon embittered scorn aloud | O |
| In glory of changeless metal | P |
| Common bird or petal | P |
| And all complexities of mire or blood | Q |
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| At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit | R |
| Flames that no faggot feeds nor steel has lit | R |
| Nor storm disturbs flames begotten of flame | S |
| Where blood begotten spirits come | T |
| And all complexities of fury leave | U |
| Dying into a dance | V |
| An agony of trance | V |
| An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve | U |
| - | |
| Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood | Q |
| Spirit after Spirit The smithies break the flood | Q |
| The golden smithies of the Emperor | W |
| Marbles of the dancing floor | X |
| Break bitter furies of complexity | Y |
| Those images that yet | Z |
| Fresh images beget | Z |
| That dolphin torn that gong tormented sea | Y |
William Butler Yeats
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