Ribb At The Tomb Of Baile And Aillinn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNAOPBJ QHRMAAST| Because you have found me in the pitch dark night | A |
| With open book you ask me what I do | B |
| Mark and digest my tale carry it afar | C |
| To those that never saw this tonsured head | D |
| Nor heard this voice that ninety years have cracked | E |
| Of Baile and Aillinn you need not speak | F |
| All know their tale all know what leaf and twig | G |
| What juncture of the apple and the yew | B |
| Surmount their bones but speak what none ha've | H |
| heard | I |
| The miracle that gave them such a death | J |
| Transfigured to pure substance what had once | K |
| Been bone and sinew when such bodies join | L |
| There is no touching here nor touching there | M |
| Nor straining joy but whole is joined to whole | N |
| For the intercourse of angels is a light | A |
| Where for its moment both seem lost consumed | O |
| Here in the pitch dark atmosphere above | P |
| The trembling of the apple and the yew | B |
| Here on the anniversary of their death | J |
| The anniversary of their first embrace | Q |
| Those lovers purified by tragedy | H |
| Hurry into each other's arms these eyes | R |
| By water herb and solitary prayer | M |
| Made aquiline are open to that light | A |
| Though somewhat broken by the leaves that light | A |
| Lies in a circle on the grass therein | S |
| I turn the pages of my holy book | T |
William Butler Yeats
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