Man And The Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHIJJKKLL L MMNOPPQQRRSTUUVWGG G XXYYZZA2B2HC2| Man In a cleft that's christened Alt | A |
| Under broken stone I halt | B |
| At the bottom of a pit | C |
| That broad noon has never lit | C |
| And shout a secret to the stone | D |
| All that I have said and done | E |
| Now that I am old and ill | F |
| Turns into a question till | F |
| I lie awake night after night | G |
| And never get the answers right | G |
| Did that play of mine send out | H |
| Certain men the English shot | I |
| Did words of mine put too great strain | J |
| On that woman's reeling brain | J |
| Could my spoken words have checked | K |
| That whereby a house lay wrecked | K |
| And all seems evil until I | L |
| Sleepless would lie down and die | L |
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| Echo Lie down and die | L |
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| Man That were to shirk | M |
| The spiritual intellect's great work | M |
| And shirk it in vain There is no release | N |
| In a bodkin or disease | O |
| Nor can there be work so great | P |
| As that which cleans man's dirty slate | P |
| While man can still his body keep | Q |
| Wine or love drug him to sleep | Q |
| Waking he thanks the Lord that he | R |
| Has body and its stupidity | R |
| But body gone he sleeps no more | S |
| And till his intellect grows sure | T |
| That all's arranged in one clear view | U |
| pursues the thoughts that I pursue | U |
| Then stands in judgment on his soul | V |
| And all work done dismisses all | W |
| Out of intellect and sight | G |
| And sinks at last into the night | G |
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| Echo Into the night | G |
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| Man O Rocky Voice | X |
| Shall we in that great night rejoice | X |
| What do we know but that we face | Y |
| One another in this place | Y |
| But hush for I have lost the theme | Z |
| Its joy or night seem but a dream | Z |
| Up there some hawk or owl has struck | A2 |
| Dropping out of sky or rock | B2 |
| A stricken rabbit is crying out | H |
| And its cry distracts my thought | C2 |
William Butler Yeats
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