Responsibilities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDEFGHFIJKLMKNOP QP| Pardon old fathers if you still remain | A |
| Somewhere in ear shot for the story's end | B |
| Old Dublin merchant free of the ten and four | C |
| Or trading out of Galway into Spain | A |
| Old country scholar Robert Emmet's friend | B |
| A hundred year old memory to the poor | D |
| Merchant and scholar who have left me blood | E |
| That has not passed through any huckster's loin | F |
| Soldiers that gave whatever die was cast | G |
| A Butler or an Armstrong that withstood | H |
| Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne | F |
| James and his Irish when the Dutchman crossed | I |
| Old merchant skipper that leaped overboard | J |
| After a ragged hat in Biscay Bay | K |
| You most of all silent and fierce old man | L |
| Because the daily spectacle that stirred | M |
| My fancy and set my boyish lips to say | K |
| Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun | N |
| Pardon that for a barren passion's sake | O |
| Although I have come close on forty nine | P |
| I have no child I have nothing but a book | Q |
| Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine | P |
William Butler Yeats
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