The Indian Upon God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees | A |
| My spirit rocked in evening light the rushes round my knees | A |
| My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs and saw the moor fowl pace | B |
| All dripping on a grassy slope and saw them cease to chase | B |
| Each other round in circles and heard the eldest speak | C |
| Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak | C |
| Is an undying moorfowl and He lives beyond the sky | D |
| The rains are from His dripping wing the moonbeams from His eye | D |
| I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk | E |
| Who made the world and ruleth it He hangeth on a stalk | E |
| For I am in His image made and all this tinkling tide | F |
| Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide | F |
| A little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes | G |
| Brimful of starlight and he said The Stamper of the Skies | G |
| He is a gentle roebuck for how else I pray could He | H |
| Conceive a thing so sad and soft a gentle thing like me | H |
| I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say | I |
| Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay | I |
| He is a monstrous peacock and He waveth all the night | J |
| His languid tail above us lit with myriad spots of light | J |
William Butler Yeats
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