Demon And Beast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHCCCC IJKKCCLLMMCC CCDDNNOOPP QQCCCCRR| For certain minutes at the least | A |
| That crafty demon and that loud beast | A |
| That plague me day and night | B |
| Ran out of my sight | B |
| Though I had long perned in the gyre | C |
| Between my hatred and desire | C |
| I saw my freedom won | D |
| And all laugh in the sun | D |
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| The glittering eyes in a death's head | E |
| Of old Luke Wadding's portrait said | E |
| Welcome and the Ormondes all | F |
| Nodded upon the wall | F |
| And even Strafford smiled as though | G |
| It made him happier to know | G |
| I understood his plan | H |
| Now that the loud beast ran | H |
| There was no portrait in the Gallery | C |
| But beckoned to sweet company | C |
| For all men's thoughts grew clear | C |
| Being dear as mine are dear | C |
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| But soon a tear drop started up | I |
| For aimless joy had made me stop | J |
| Beside the little lake | K |
| To watch a white gull take | K |
| A bit of bread thrown up into the air | C |
| Now gyring down and perning there | C |
| He splashed where an absurd | L |
| Portly green pated bird | L |
| Shook off the water from his back | M |
| Being no more demoniac | M |
| A stupid happy creature | C |
| Could rouse my whole nature | C |
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| Yet I am certain as can be | C |
| That every natural victory | C |
| Belongs to beast or demon | D |
| That never yet had freeman | D |
| Right mastery of natural things | N |
| And that mere growing old that brings | N |
| Chilled blood this sweetness brought | O |
| Yet have no dearer thought | O |
| Than that I may find out a way | P |
| To make it linger half a day | P |
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| O what a sweetness strayed | Q |
| Through barren Thebaid | Q |
| Or by the Mareotic sea | C |
| When that exultant Anthony | C |
| And twice a thousand more | C |
| Starved upon the shore | C |
| And withered to a bag of bones | R |
| What had the Caesars but their thrones | R |
William Butler Yeats
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