The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EBFBGB HBIBGB| Although I shelter from the rain | A |
| Under a broken tree | B |
| My chair was nearest to the fire | C |
| In every company | B |
| That talked of love or politics | D |
| Ere Time transfigured me | B |
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| Though lads are making pikes again | E |
| For some conspiracy | B |
| And crazy rascals rage their fill | F |
| At human tyranny | B |
| My contemplations are of Time | G |
| That has transfigured me | B |
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| There's not a woman turns her face | H |
| Upon a broken tree | B |
| And yet the beauties that I loved | I |
| Are in my memory | B |
| I spit into the face of Time | G |
| That has transfigured me | B |
William Butler Yeats
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