Solomon And The Witch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFDGHIHIJKJKALM NOPOPQRQRSCSEETUTUE VWVXNY| And thus declared that Arab lady | A |
| 'Last night where under the wild moon | B |
| On grassy mattress I had laid me | A |
| Within my arms great Solomon | C |
| I suddenly cried out in a strange tongue | D |
| Not his not mine ' | E |
| Who understood | F |
| Whatever has been said sighed sung | D |
| Howled miau d barked brayed belled yelled cried crowed | G |
| Thereon replied 'A cockerel | H |
| Crew from a blossoming apple bough | I |
| Three hundred years before the Fall | H |
| And never crew again till now | I |
| And would not now but that he thought | J |
| Chance being at one with Choice at last | K |
| All that the brigand apple brought | J |
| And this foul world were dead at last | K |
| He that crowed out eternity | A |
| Thought to have crowed it in again | L |
| For though love has a spider's eye | M |
| To find out some appropriate pain | N |
| Aye though all passion's in the glance | O |
| For every nerve and tests a lover | P |
| With cruelties of Choice and Chance | O |
| And when at last that murder's over | P |
| Maybe the bride bed brings despair | Q |
| For each an imagined image brings | R |
| And finds a real image there | Q |
| Yet the world ends when these two things | R |
| Though several are a single light | S |
| When oil and wick are burned in one | C |
| Therefore a blessed moon last night | S |
| Gave Sheba to her Solomon ' | E |
| 'Yet the world stays ' | E |
| 'If that be so | T |
| Your cockerel found us in the wrong | U |
| Although he thought it worth a crow | T |
| Maybe an image is too strong | U |
| Or maybe is not strong enough ' | E |
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| 'The night has fallen not a sound | V |
| In the forbidden sacred grove | W |
| Unless a petal hit the ground | V |
| Nor any human sight within it | X |
| But the crushed grass where we have lain | N |
| And the moon is wilder every minute | Y |
| O Solomon let us try again ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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