The Hawk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABD EFGEF HIJKL| 'Call down the hawk from the air | A |
| Let him be hooded or caged | B |
| Till the yellow eye has grown mild | C |
| For larder and spit are bare | A |
| The old cook enraged | B |
| The scullion gone wild ' | D |
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| 'I will not be clapped in a hood | E |
| Nor a cage nor alight upon wrist | F |
| Now I have learnt to be proud | G |
| Hovering over the wood | E |
| In the broken mist | F |
| Or tumbling cloud ' | - |
| - | |
| 'What tumbling cloud did you cleave | H |
| Yellow eyed hawk of the mind | I |
| Last evening that I who had sat | J |
| Dumbfounded before a knave | K |
| Should give to my friend | L |
| A pretence of wit ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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