The Madness Of King Goll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCDDEF AGAGAHAHIIFF JKJLAAAAMMFF NGGGGGGGOPFF AAAABQBQRRQQ ASASLQLBBBQQ

I sat on cushioned otter skinA
My word was law from Ith to EmainA
And shook at Inver AmerginA
The hearts of the world troubling seamenA
And drove tumult and war awayB
From girl and boy and man and beastC
The fields grew fatter day by dayB
The wild fowl of the air increasedC
And every ancient Ollave saidD
While he bent down his fading headD
'He drives away the Northern cold 'E
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldF
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I sat and mused and drank sweet wineA
A herdsman came from inland valleysG
Crying the pirates drove his swineA
To fill their dark beaked hollow galleysG
I called my battle breaking menA
And my loud brazen battle carsH
From rolling vale and rivery glenA
And under the blinking of the starsH
Fell on the pirates by the deepI
And hurled them in the gulph of sleepI
These hands won many a torque of goldF
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldF
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But slowly as I shouting slewJ
And trampled in the bubbling mireK
In my most secret spirit grewJ
A whirling and a wandering fireL
I stood keen stars above me shoneA
Around me shone keen eyes of menA
I laughed aloud and hurried onA
By rocky shore and rushy fenA
I laughed because birds fluttered byM
And starlight gleamed and clouds flew highM
And rushes waved and waters rolledF
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldF
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And now I wander in the woodsN
When summer gluts the golden beesG
Or in autumnal solitudesG
Arise the leopard coloured treesG
Or when along the wintry strandsG
The cormorants shiver on their rocksG
I wander on and wave my handsG
And sing and shake my heavy locksG
The grey wolf knows me by one earO
I lead along the woodland deerP
The hares run by me growing boldF
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldF
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I came upon a little townA
That slumbered in the harvest moonA
And passed a tiptoe up and downA
Murmuring to a fitful tuneA
How I have followed night and dayB
A tramping of tremendous feetQ
And saw where this old tympan layB
Deserted on a doorway seatQ
And bore it to the woods with meR
Of some inhuman miseryR
Our married voices wildly trolledQ
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldQ
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I sang how when day's toil is doneA
Orchil shakes out her long dark hairS
That hides away the dying sunA
And sheds faint odours through the airS
When my hand passed from wire to wireL
It quenched with sound like falling dewQ
The whirling and the wandering fireL
But lift a mournful ulaluB
For the kind wires are torn and stillB
And I must wander wood and hillB
Through summer's heat and winter's coldQ
They will not hush the leaves a flutter round me the beech leaves oldQ

William Butler Yeats



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