On Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIJIKLLLMNANOPQP JRJSTETUVUVAWAW| May God be praised for woman | A |
| That gives up all her mind | B |
| A man may find in no man | C |
| A friendship of her kind | B |
| That covers all he has brought | D |
| As with her flesh and bone | E |
| Nor quarrels with a thought | D |
| Because it is not her own | E |
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| Though pedantry denies | F |
| It's plain the Bible means | G |
| That Solomon grew wise | F |
| While talking with his queens | G |
| Yet never could although | H |
| They say he counted grass | I |
| Count all the praises due | J |
| When Sheba was his lass | I |
| When she the iron wrought or | K |
| When from the smithy fire | L |
| It shuddered in the water | L |
| Harshness of their desire | L |
| That made them stretch and yawn | M |
| pleasure that comes with sleep | N |
| Shudder that made them one | A |
| What else He give or keep | N |
| God grant me no not here | O |
| For I am not so bold | P |
| To hope a thing so dear | Q |
| Now I am growing old | P |
| But when if the tale's true | J |
| The Pestle of the moon | R |
| That pounds up all anew | J |
| Brings me to birth again | S |
| To find what once I had | T |
| And know what once I have known | E |
| Until I am driven mad | T |
| Sleep driven from my bed | U |
| By tenderness and care | V |
| pity an aching head | U |
| Gnashing of teeth despair | V |
| And all because of some one | A |
| perverse creature of chance | W |
| And live like Solomon | A |
| That Sheba led a dance | W |
William Butler Yeats
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