Sixteen Dead Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJCJ| O but we talked at large before | A |
| The sixteen men were shot | B |
| But who can talk of give and take | C |
| What should be and what not | B |
| While those dead men are loitering there | D |
| To stir the boiling pot | B |
| - | |
| You say that we should still the land | E |
| Till Germany's overcome | F |
| But who is there to argue that | G |
| Now Pearse is deaf and dumb | F |
| And is their logic to outweigh | H |
| MacDonagh's bony thumb | F |
| - | |
| How could you dream they'd listen | I |
| That have an ear alone | J |
| For those new comrades they have found | K |
| Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone | J |
| Or meddle with our give and take | C |
| That converse bone to bone | J |
William Butler Yeats
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