King And No King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFDGHHGIJJI| 'Would it were anything but merely voice ' | A |
| The No King cried who after that was King | B |
| Because he had not heard of anything | B |
| That balanced with a word is more than noise | C |
| Yet Old Romance being kind let him prevail | D |
| Somewhere or somehow that I have forgot | E |
| Though he'd but cannon Whereas we that had thought | F |
| To have lit upon as clean and sweet a tale | D |
| Have been defeated by that pledge you gave | G |
| In momentary anger long ago | H |
| And I that have not your faith how shall I know | H |
| That in the blinding light beyond the grave | G |
| We'll find so good a thing as that we have lost | I |
| The hourly kindness the day's common speech | J |
| The habitual content of each with each | J |
| Men neither soul nor body has been crossed | I |
William Butler Yeats
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