Poet William Butler Yeats

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In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFAAGGHHAAII JJAAAEKLLMNAAOOPPQQ

Five and twenty years have goneA
Since old William pollexfenA
Laid his strong bones down in deathB
By his wife ElizabethC
In the grey stone tomb he madeD
And after twenty years they laidD
In that tomb by him and herE
His son George the astrologerE
And Masons drove from miles awayF
To scatter the Acacia sprayF
Upon a melancholy manA
Who had ended where his breath beganA
Many a son and daughter liesG
Far from the customary skiesG
The Mall and Eades's grammar schoolH
In London or in LiverpoolH
But where is laid the sailor JohnA
That so many lands had knownA
Quiet lands or unquiet seasI
Where the Indians trade or JapaneseI
He never found his rest ashoreJ
Moping for one voyage moreJ
Where have they laid the sailor JohnA
And yesterday the youngest sonA
A humorous unambitious manA
Was buried near the astrologerE
Yesterday in the tenth yearK
Since he who had been contented longL
A nobody in a great throngL
Decided he would journey homeM
Now that his fiftieth year had comeN
And 'Mr Alfred' be againA
Upon the lips of common menA
Who carried in their memoryO
His childhood and his familyO
At all these death beds women heardP
A visionary white sea birdP
Lamenting that a man should dieQ
And with that cry I have raised my cryQ

William Butler Yeats



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