High Talk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EE FFGH| Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye | A |
| What if my great granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high | A |
| And mine were but fifteen foot no modern Stalks upon higher | B |
| Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire | B |
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| Because piebald ponies led bears caged lions ake but poor shows | C |
| Because children demand Daddy long legs upon This timber toes | C |
| Because women in the upper storeys demand a face at the pane | D |
| That patching old heels they may shriek I take to chisel and plane | D |
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| Malachi Stilt Jack am I whatever I learned has run wild | E |
| From collar to collar from stilt to stilt from father to child | E |
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| All metaphor Malachi stilts and all A barnacle goose | F |
| Far up in the stretches of night night splits and the dawn breaks loose | F |
| I through the terrible novelty of light stalk on stalk on | G |
| Those great sea horses bare their teeth and laugh at the dawn | H |
William Butler Yeats
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