The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KBKB| If this importunate heart trouble your peace | A |
| With words lighter than air | B |
| Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and cease | A |
| Crumple the rose in your hair | B |
| And cover your lips with odorous twilight and say | C |
| 'O Hearts of wind blown flame | D |
| O Winds older than changing of night and day | C |
| That murmuring and longing came | D |
| From marble cities loud with tabors of old | E |
| In dove grey faery lands | F |
| From battle banners fold upon purple fold | E |
| Queens wrought with glimmering hands | F |
| That saw young Niamh hover with love lorn face | G |
| Above the wandering tide | H |
| And lingered in the hidden desolate place | G |
| Where the last Phoenix died | H |
| And wrapped the flames above his holy head | I |
| And still murmur and long | J |
| O piteous Hearts changing till change be dead | I |
| In a tumultuous song' | J |
| And cover the pale blossoms of your breast | K |
| With your dim heavy hair | B |
| And trouble with a sigh for all things longing for rest | K |
| The odorous twilight there | B |
William Butler Yeats
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