Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGGGHIHIJKJL MGMGNGNG| Now must I these three praise | A |
| Three women that have wrought | B |
| What joy is in my days | A |
| One because no thought | B |
| Nor those unpassing cares | C |
| No not in these fifteen | D |
| Many times troubled years | E |
| Could ever come between | D |
| Mind and delighted mind | F |
| And one because her hand | G |
| Had strength that could unbind | G |
| What none can understand | G |
| What none can have and thrive | H |
| Youth's dreamy load till she | I |
| So changed me that I live | H |
| Labouring in ecstasy | I |
| And what of her that took | J |
| All till my youth was gone | K |
| With scarce a pitying look | J |
| How could I praise that one | L |
| When day begins to break | M |
| I count my good and bad | G |
| Being wakeful for her sake | M |
| Remembering what she had | G |
| What eagle look still shows | N |
| While up from my heart's root | G |
| So great a sweetness flows | N |
| I shake from head to foot | G |
William Butler Yeats
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