On A Political Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DCDCCE CCCCCC FCFCCC| She that but little patience knew | A |
| From childhood on had now so much | B |
| A grey gull lost its fear and flew | A |
| Down to her cell and there alit | C |
| And there endured her fingers' touch | B |
| And from her fingers ate its bit | C |
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| Did she in touching that lone wing | D |
| Recall the years before her mind | C |
| Became a bitter an abstract thing | D |
| Her thought some popular enmity | C |
| Blind and leader of the blind | C |
| Drinking the foul ditch where they lie | E |
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| When long ago I saw her ride | C |
| Under Ben Bulben to the meet | C |
| The beauty of her country side | C |
| With all youth's lonely wildness stirred | C |
| She seemed to have grown clean and sweet | C |
| Like any rock bred sea borne bird | C |
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| Sea borne or balanced on the air | F |
| When first it sprang out of the nest | C |
| Upon some lofty rock to stare | F |
| Upon the cloudy canopy | C |
| While under its storm beaten breast | C |
| Cried out the hollows of the sea | C |
William Butler Yeats
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