The Curse Of Cromwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEC FGHHIIEC JJKKLLEC MMBBNNECYou ask what I have found and far and wide I go | A |
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew | B |
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay | C |
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they | C |
And there is an old beggar wandering in his pride | D |
His fathers served their fathers before Christ was crucified | D |
O what of that O what of that | E |
What is there left to say | C |
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All neighbourly content and easy talk are gone | F |
But there's no good complaining for money's rant is on | G |
He that's mounting up must on his neighbour mount | H |
And we and all the Muses are things of no account | H |
They have schooling of their own but I pass their schooling by | I |
What can they know that we know that know the time to die | I |
O what of that O what of that | E |
What is there left to say | C |
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But there's another knowledge that my heart destroys | J |
As the fox in the old fable destroyed the Spartan boy's | J |
Because it proves that things both can and cannot be | K |
That the swordsmen and the ladies can still keep company | K |
Can pay the poet for a verse and hear the fiddle sound | L |
That I am still their setvant though all are underground | L |
O what of that O what of that | E |
What is there left to say | C |
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I came on a great house in the middle of the night | M |
Its open lighted doorway and its windows all alight | M |
And all my friends were there and made me welcome too | B |
But I woke in an old ruin that the winds howled through | B |
And when I pay attention I must out and walk | N |
Among the dogs and horses that understand my talk | N |
O what of that O what of that | E |
What is there left to say | C |
William Butler Yeats
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