Michael Robartes And The Dancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHGH I JKJKL M LNOPQP OR JOJSTSTJBJBO UO UO V BVWXJXJYZY A2

He Opinion is not worth a rushA
In this altar piece the knightB
Who grips his long spear so to pushC
That dragon through the fading lightB
Loved the lady and it's plainD
The half dead dragon was her thoughtE
That every morning rose againF
And dug its claws and shrieked and foughtE
Could the impossible come to passG
She would have time to turn her eyesH
Her lover thought upon the glassG
And on the instant would grow wiseH
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She You mean they arguedI
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He Put it soJ
But bear in mind your lover's wageK
Is what your looking glass can showJ
And that he will turn green with rageK
At all that is not pictured thereL
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She May I not put myself to collegeM
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He Go pluck Athene by the hairL
For what mere book can grant a knowledgeN
With an impassioned gravityO
Appropriate to that beating breastP
That vigorous thigh that dreaming eyeQ
And may the Devil take the restP
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She And must no beautiful woman beO
Learned like a manR
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He Paul VeroneseJ
And all his sacred companyO
Imagined bodies all their daysJ
By the lagoon you love so muchS
For proud soft ceremonious proofT
That all must come to sight and touchS
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roofT
His Morning' and his Night' discloseJ
How sinew that has been pulled tightB
Or it may be loosened in reposeJ
Can rule by supernatural rightB
Yet be but sinewO
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She I have heard saidU
There is great danger in the bodyO
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He Did God in portioning wine and breadU
Give man His thought or His mere bodyO
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She My wretched dragon is perplexedV
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Hec I have principles to prove me rightB
It follows from this Latin textV
That blest souls are not compositeW
And that all beautiful women mayX
Live in uncomposite blessednessJ
And lead us to the like if theyX
Will banish every thought unlessJ
The lineaments that please their viewY
When the long looking glass is fullZ
Even from the foot sole think it tooY
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She They say such different things at schoolA2

William Butler Yeats



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