Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDD EFEGHGII JKJKJKLL MNMNMOPP QRQRQRSS TRPRURVW| Under my window ledge the waters race | A |
| Otters below and moor hens on the top | B |
| Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's face | A |
| Then darkening through 'dark' Raftery's 'cellar' drop | B |
| Run underground rise in a rocky place | A |
| In Coole demesne and there to finish up | C |
| Spread to a lake and drop into a hole | D |
| What's water but the generated soul | D |
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| Upon the border of that lake's a wood | E |
| Now all dry sticks under a wintry sun | F |
| And in a copse of beeches there I stood | E |
| For Nature's pulled her tragic buskin on | G |
| And all the rant's a mirror of my mood | H |
| At sudden thunder of the mounting swan | G |
| I turned about and looked where branches break | I |
| The glittering reaches of the flooded lake | I |
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| Another emblem there That stormy white | J |
| But seems a concentration of the sky | K |
| And like the soul it sails into the sight | J |
| And in the morning's gone no man knows why | K |
| And is so lovely that it sets to right | J |
| What knowledge or its lack had set awry | K |
| So atrogantly pure a child might think | L |
| It can be murdered with a spot of ink | L |
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| Sound of a stick upon the floor a sound | M |
| From somebody that toils from chair to chair | N |
| Beloved books that famous hands have bound | M |
| Old marble heads old pictures everywhere | N |
| Great rooms where travelled men and children found | M |
| Content or joy a last inheritor | O |
| Where none has reigned that lacked a name and fame | P |
| Or out of folly into folly came | P |
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| A spot whereon the founders lived and died | Q |
| Seemed once more dear than life ancestral trees | R |
| Or gardens rich in memory glorified | Q |
| Marriages alliances and families | R |
| And every bride's ambition satisfied | Q |
| Where fashion or mere fantasy decrees | R |
| We shift about all that great glory spent | S |
| Like some poor Arab tribesman and his tent | S |
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| We were the last romantics chose for theme | T |
| Traditional sanctity and loveliness | R |
| Whatever's written in what poets name | P |
| The book of the people whatever most can bless | R |
| The mind of man or elevate a rhyme | U |
| But all is changed that high horse riderless | R |
| Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode | V |
| Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood | W |
William Butler Yeats
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