Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHIJI KLMLNONPNQNQRSRTUVUV JWJI XYXYZA2B2A2YC2D2E2F2 G2F2G2 NVNVH2I2J2I2G2K2G2L2 CM2CN2O2NO2NJIJI| I have met them at close of day | A |
| Coming with vivid faces | B |
| From counter or desk among grey | A |
| Eighteenth century houses | B |
| I have passed with a nod of the head | C |
| Or polite meaningless words | D |
| Or have lingered awhile and said | C |
| Polite meaningless words | D |
| And thought before I had done | E |
| Of a mocking tale or a gibe | F |
| To please a companion | E |
| Around the fire at the club | G |
| Being certain that they and I | H |
| But lived where motley is worn | I |
| All changed changed utterly | J |
| A terrible beauty is born | I |
| - | |
| That woman's days were spent | K |
| In ignorant good will | L |
| Her nights in argument | M |
| Until her voice grew shrill | L |
| What voice more sweet than hers | N |
| When young and beautiful | O |
| She rode to harriers | N |
| This man had kept a school | P |
| And rode our winged horse | N |
| This other his helper and friend | Q |
| Was coming into his force | N |
| He might have won fame in the end | Q |
| So sensitive his nature seemed | R |
| So daring and sweet his thought | S |
| This other man I had dreamed | R |
| A drunken vainglorious lout | T |
| He had done most bitter wrong | U |
| To some who are near my heart | V |
| Yet I number him in the song | U |
| He too has resigned his part | V |
| In the casual comedy | J |
| He too has been changed in his turn | W |
| Transformed utterly | J |
| A terrible beauty is born | I |
| - | |
| Hearts with one purpose alone | X |
| Through summer and winter seem | Y |
| Enchanted to a stone | X |
| To trouble the living stream | Y |
| The horse that comes from the road | Z |
| The rider the birds that range | A2 |
| From cloud to tumbling cloud | B2 |
| Minute by minute they change | A2 |
| A shadow of cloud on the stream | Y |
| Changes minute by minute | C2 |
| A horse hoof slides on the brim | D2 |
| And a horse plashes within it | E2 |
| The long legged moor hens dive | F2 |
| And hens to moor cocks call | G2 |
| Minute by minute they live | F2 |
| The stone's in the midst of all | G2 |
| - | |
| Too long a sacrifice | N |
| Can make a stone of the heart | V |
| O when may it suffice | N |
| That is Heaven's part our part | V |
| To murmur name upon name | H2 |
| As a mother names her child | I2 |
| When sleep at last has come | J2 |
| On limbs that had run wild | I2 |
| What is it but nightfall | G2 |
| No no not night but death | K2 |
| Was it needless death after all | G2 |
| For England may keep faith | L2 |
| For all that is done and said | C |
| We know their dream enough | M2 |
| To know they dreamed and are dead | C |
| And what if excess of love | N2 |
| Bewildered them till they died | O2 |
| I write it out in a verse | N |
| MacDonagh and MacBride | O2 |
| And Connolly and Pearse | N |
| Now and in time to be | J |
| Wherever green is worn | I |
| Are changed changed utterly | J |
| A terrible beauty is born | I |
William Butler Yeats
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