The Fisherman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFGHIJJKLMN DODO PEQEFRFRJSJSJTJ| Although I can see him still | A |
| The freckled man who goes | B |
| To a grey place on a hill | A |
| In grey Connemara clothes | C |
| At dawn to cast his flies | D |
| It's long since I began | E |
| To call up to the eyes | D |
| This wise and simple man | E |
| All day I'd looked in the face | F |
| What I had hoped 'twould be | G |
| To write for my own race | F |
| And the reality | G |
| The living men that I hate | H |
| The dead man that I loved | I |
| The craven man in his seat | J |
| The insolent unreproved | J |
| And no knave brought to book | K |
| Who has won a drunken cheer | L |
| The witty man and his joke | M |
| Aimed at the commonest ear | N |
| The clever man who cries | D |
| The catch cries of the clown | O |
| The beating down of the wise | D |
| And great Art beaten down | O |
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| Maybe a twelvemonth since | P |
| Suddenly I began | E |
| In scorn of this audience | Q |
| Imagining a man | E |
| And his sun freckled face | F |
| And grey Connemara cloth | R |
| Climbing up to a place | F |
| Where stone is dark under froth | R |
| And the down turn of his wrist | J |
| When the flies drop in the stream | S |
| A man who does not exist | J |
| A man who is but a dream | S |
| And cried 'Before I am old | J |
| I shall have written him one | T |
| poem maybe as cold | J |
| And passionate as the dawn ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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