Ribb Denounces Patrick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEECEFGFHFIJIKI| An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man | A |
| Recall that masculine Trinity Man woman child a | B |
| daughter or a son | C |
| That's how all natural or supernatural stories run | C |
| Natural and supernatural with the self same ring are | D |
| wed | E |
| As man as beast as an ephemeral fly begets Godhead | E |
| begets Godhead | E |
| For things below are copies the Great Smaragdine | C |
| Tablet said | E |
| Yet all must copy copies all increase their kind | F |
| When the conflagration of their passion sinks damped | G |
| by the body or the mind | F |
| That juggling nature mounts her coil in their em | H |
| braces twined | F |
| The mirror scaled serpent is multiplicity | I |
| But all that run in couples on earth in flood or air | J |
| share God that is but three | I |
| And could beget or bear themselves could they but | K |
| love as He | I |
William Butler Yeats
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