Introductory Lines (the Shadowy Waters) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEFGHFIFJJFFKLF EFFMNFFOPQFRFFFFLFFS TEUF| I walked among the seven woods of Coole | A |
| Shan walla where a willow hordered pond | B |
| Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn | C |
| Shady Kyle dortha sunnier Kyle na no | D |
| Where many hundred squirrels are as happy | E |
| As though they had been hidden by green bough's | F |
| Where old age cannot find them Paire na lee | E |
| Where hazel and ash and privet blind the paths | F |
| Dim Paire na carraig where the wild bees fling | G |
| Their sudden fragrances on the green air | H |
| Dim Paire na tarav where enchanted eyes | F |
| Have seen immortal mild proud shadows walk | I |
| Dim Inchy wood that hides badger and fox | F |
| And marten cat and borders that old wood | J |
| Wise Buddy Early called the wicked wood | J |
| Seven odours seven murmurs seven woods | F |
| I had not eyes like those enchanted eyes | F |
| Yet dreamed that beings happier than men | K |
| Moved round me in the shadows and at night | L |
| My dreams were clown by voices and by fires | F |
| And the images I have woven in this story | E |
| Of Forgael and Dectora and the empty waters | F |
| Moved round me in the voices and the fires | F |
| And more I may not write of for they that cleave | M |
| The waters of sleep can make a chattering tongue | N |
| Heavy like stone their wisdom being half silence | F |
| How shall I name you immortal mild proud shadows | F |
| I only know that all we know comes from you | O |
| And that you come from Eden on flying feet | P |
| Is Eden far away or do you hide | Q |
| From human thought as hares and mice and coneys | F |
| That run before the reaping hook and lie | R |
| In the last ridge of the barley Do our woods | F |
| And winds and ponds cover more quiet woods | F |
| More shining winds more star glimmering ponds | F |
| Is Eden out of time and out of space | F |
| And do you gather about us when pale light | L |
| Shining on water and fallen among leaves | F |
| And winds blowing from flowers and whirr of feathers | F |
| And the green quiet have uplifted the heart | S |
| I have made this poem for you that men may read it | T |
| Before they read of Forgael and Dectora | E |
| As men in the old times before the harps began | U |
| Poured out wine for the high invisible ones | F |
William Butler Yeats
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