Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHIJI KLMLNONPNQNQRSRTUVUV JWJI XYXYZA2B2A2YC2D2E2F2 G2F2G2 NVNVH2I2J2I2G2K2G2L2 CM2CN2O2NO2NJIJII 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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