Her Vision In The Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEE FGHIJGKK LMLMNOPP QRSTURVE| Dry timber under that rich foliage | A |
| At wine dark midnight in the sacred wood | B |
| Too old for a man's love I stood in rage | C |
| Imagining men Imagining that I could | B |
| A greater with a lesser pang assuage | C |
| Or but to find if withered vein ran blood | D |
| I tore my body that its wine might cover | E |
| Whatever could rccall the lip of lover | E |
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| And after that I held my fingers up | F |
| Stared at the wine dark nail or dark that ran | G |
| Down every withered finger from the top | H |
| But the dark changed to red and torches shone | I |
| And deafening music shook the leaves a troop | J |
| Shouldered a litter with a wounded man | G |
| Or smote upon the string and to the sound | K |
| Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound | K |
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| All stately women moving to a song | L |
| With loosened hair or foreheads grief distraught | M |
| It seemed a Quattrocento painter's throng | L |
| A thoughtless image of Mantegna's thought | M |
| Why should they think that are for ever young | N |
| Till suddenly in grief's contagion caught | O |
| I stared upon his blood bedabbled breast | P |
| And sang my malediction with the rest | P |
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| That thing all blood and mire that beast torn wreck | Q |
| Half turned and fixed a glazing eye on mine | R |
| And though love's bitter sweet had all come back | S |
| Those bodies from a picture or a coin | T |
| Nor saw my body fall nor heard it shriek | U |
| Nor knew drunken with singing as with wine | R |
| That they had brought no fabulous symbol there | V |
| But my heart's victim and its torturer | E |
William Butler Yeats
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