Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHIJI KLMLNONPNQNQRSRTUVUV JWJI XYXYZA2B2A2YC2D2E2F2 G2F2G2 NVNVH2I2J2I2G2K2G2L2 CM2CN2O2NO2NJIJI

I have met them at close of dayA
Coming with vivid facesB
From counter or desk among greyA
Eighteenth century housesB
I have passed with a nod of the headC
Or polite meaningless wordsD
Or have lingered awhile and saidC
Polite meaningless wordsD
And thought before I had doneE
Of a mocking tale or a gibeF
To please a companionE
Around the fire at the clubG
Being certain that they and IH
But lived where motley is wornI
All changed changed utterlyJ
A terrible beauty is bornI
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That woman's days were spentK
In ignorant good willL
Her nights in argumentM
Until her voice grew shrillL
What voice more sweet than hersN
When young and beautifulO
She rode to harriersN
This man had kept a schoolP
And rode our winged horseN
This other his helper and friendQ
Was coming into his forceN
He might have won fame in the endQ
So sensitive his nature seemedR
So daring and sweet his thoughtS
This other man I had dreamedR
A drunken vainglorious loutT
He had done most bitter wrongU
To some who are near my heartV
Yet I number him in the songU
He too has resigned his partV
In the casual comedyJ
He too has been changed in his turnW
Transformed utterlyJ
A terrible beauty is bornI
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Hearts with one purpose aloneX
Through summer and winter seemY
Enchanted to a stoneX
To trouble the living streamY
The horse that comes from the roadZ
The rider the birds that rangeA2
From cloud to tumbling cloudB2
Minute by minute they changeA2
A shadow of cloud on the streamY
Changes minute by minuteC2
A horse hoof slides on the brimD2
And a horse plashes within itE2
The long legged moor hens diveF2
And hens to moor cocks callG2
Minute by minute they liveF2
The stone's in the midst of allG2
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Too long a sacrificeN
Can make a stone of the heartV
O when may it sufficeN
That is Heaven's part our partV
To murmur name upon nameH2
As a mother names her childI2
When sleep at last has comeJ2
On limbs that had run wildI2
What is it but nightfallG2
No no not night but deathK2
Was it needless death after allG2
For England may keep faithL2
For all that is done and saidC
We know their dream enoughM2
To know they dreamed and are deadC
And what if excess of loveN2
Bewildered them till they diedO2
I write it out in a verseN
MacDonagh and MacBrideO2
And Connolly and PearseN
Now and in time to beJ
Wherever green is wornI
Are changed changed utterlyJ
A terrible beauty is bornI

William Butler Yeats



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