Coole Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACDD EFEGEHII JKJLMLNN OPQRQSTU| I meditate upon a swallow's flight | A |
| Upon a aged woman and her house | B |
| A sycamore and lime tree lost in night | A |
| Although that western cloud is luminous | C |
| Great works constructed there in nature's spite | A |
| For scholars and for poets after us | C |
| Thoughts long knitted into a single thought | D |
| A dance like glory that those walls begot | D |
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| There Hyde before he had beaten into prose | E |
| That noble blade the Muses buckled on | F |
| There one that ruffled in a manly pose | E |
| For all his timid heart there that slow man | G |
| That meditative man John Synge and those | E |
| Impetuous men Shawe Taylor and Hugh Lane | H |
| Found pride established in humility | I |
| A scene well Set and excellent company | I |
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| They came like swallows and like swallows went | J |
| And yet a woman's powerful character | K |
| Could keep a Swallow to its first intent | J |
| And half a dozen in formation there | L |
| That seemed to whirl upon a compass point | M |
| Found certainty upon the dreaming air | L |
| The intellectual sweetness of those lines | N |
| That cut through time or cross it withershins | N |
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| Here traveler scholar poet take your stand | O |
| When all those rooms and passages are gone | P |
| When nettles wave upon a shapeless mound | Q |
| And saplings root among the broken stone | R |
| And dedicate eyes bent upon the ground | Q |
| Back turned upon the brightness of the sun | S |
| And all the sensuality of the shade | T |
| A moment's memory to that laureled head | U |
William Butler Yeats
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