The Gyres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEE FGFHIJK LMNMOMPJ| The gyres the gyres Old Rocky Face look forth | A |
| Things thought too long can be no longer thought | B |
| For beauty dies of beauty worth of worth | C |
| And ancient lineaments are blotted out | D |
| Irrational streams of blood are staining earth | C |
| Empedocles has thrown all things about | D |
| Hector is dead and there's a light in Troy | E |
| We that look on but laugh in tragic joy | E |
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| What matter though numb nightmare ride on top | F |
| And blood and mire the sensitive body stain | G |
| What matter Heave no sigh let no tear drop | F |
| A greater a more gracious time has gone | H |
| For painted forms or boxes of make up | I |
| In ancient tombs I sighed but not again | J |
| What matter Out of cavern comes a voice | K |
| And all it knows is that one word 'Rejoice ' | - |
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| Conduct and work grow coarse and coarse the soul | L |
| What matter Those that Rocky Face holds dear | M |
| Lovers of horses and of women shall | N |
| From marble of a broken sepulchre | M |
| Or dark betwixt the polecat and the owl | O |
| Or any rich dark nothing disinter | M |
| The workman noble and saint and all things run | P |
| On that unfashionable gyre again | J |
William Butler Yeats
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