Running To Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCD EEBFGFD HHBIJKD LLBMNND| As I came over Windy Gap | A |
| They threw a halfpenny into my cap | A |
| For I am running to paradise | B |
| And all that I need do is to wish | C |
| And somebody puts his hand in the dish | C |
| To throw me a bit of salted fish | C |
| And there the king is but as the beggar | D |
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| My brother Mourteen is worn out | E |
| With skelping his big brawling lout | E |
| And I am running to paradise | B |
| A poor life do what he can | F |
| And though he keep a dog and a gun | G |
| A serving maid and a serving man | F |
| And there the king is but as the beggar | D |
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| Poor men have grown to be rich men | H |
| And rich men grown to be poor again | H |
| And I am running to paradise | B |
| And many a darling wit's grown dull | I |
| That tossed a bare heel when at school | J |
| Now it has filled a old sock full | K |
| And there the king is but as the beggar | D |
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| The wind is old and still at play | L |
| While I must hurry upon my way | L |
| For I am running to paradise | B |
| Yet never have I lit on a friend | M |
| To take my fancy like the wind | N |
| That nobody can buy or bind | N |
| And there the king is but as the beggar | D |
William Butler Yeats
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