Sailing To Byzantium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDEFF A GHGHGHII A JKJLJMNN OGOOOOII| I | A |
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| That is no country for old men The young | B |
| In one another's arms birds in the trees | C |
| Those dying generations at their song | D |
| The salmon falls the mackerel crowded seas | C |
| Fish flesh or fowl commend all summer long | D |
| Whatever is begotten born and dies | E |
| Caught in that sensual music all neglect | F |
| Monuments of unageing intellect | F |
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| II | A |
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| An aged man is but a paltry thing | G |
| A tattered coat upon a stick unless | H |
| Soul clap its hands and sing and louder sing | G |
| For every tatter in its mortal dress | H |
| Nor is there singing school but studying | G |
| Monuments of its own magnificence | H |
| And therefore I have sailed the seas and come | I |
| To the holy city of Byzantium | I |
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| III | A |
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| O sages standing in God's holy fire | J |
| As in the gold mosaic of a wall | K |
| Come from the holy fire perne in a gyre | J |
| And be the singing masters of my soul | L |
| Consume my heart away sick with desire | J |
| And fastened to a dying animal | M |
| It knows not what it is and gather me | N |
| Into the artifice of eternity | N |
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| IV | - |
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| Once out of nature I shall never take | O |
| My bodily form from any natural thing | G |
| But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make | O |
| Of hammered gold and gold enamelling | O |
| To keep a drowsy Emperor awake | O |
| Or set upon a golden bough to sing | O |
| To lords and ladies of Byzantium | I |
| Of what is past or passing or to come | I |
William Butler Yeats
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