Introductory Rhymes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDEFGEHIJKLJKMK NK| Pardon old fathers if you still remain | A |
| Somewhere in ear shot for the story's end | B |
| Old Dublin merchant 'free of ten and four' | C |
| Or trading out of Galway into Spain | A |
| And country scholar Robert Emmet's friend | B |
| A hundred year old memory to the poor | C |
| Traders or soldiers who have left me blood | D |
| That has not passed through any huxter's loin | E |
| Pardon and you that did not weigh the cost | F |
| Old Butlers when you took to horse and stood | G |
| Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne | E |
| Till your bad master blenched and all was lost | H |
| You merchant skipper that leaped overboard | I |
| After a ragged hat in Biscay Bay | J |
| You most of all silent and fierce old man | K |
| Because you were the spectacle that stirred | L |
| My fancy and set my boyish lips to say | J |
| 'Only the wastful virtues earn the sun' | K |
| Pardon that for a barren passion's sake | M |
| Although I have come close on forty nine | K |
| I have no child I have nothing but a book | N |
| Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine | K |
William Butler Yeats
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