The People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAADAEAFDAADGHDAD AIJKLDAMN OAPQR SAA| 'What have I earned for all that work ' I said | A |
| 'For all that I have done at my own charge | B |
| The daily spite of this unmannerly town | C |
| Where who has served the most is most defaned | A |
| The reputation of his lifetime lost | A |
| Between the night and morning I might have lived | A |
| And you know well how great the longing has been | D |
| Where every day my footfall Should have lit | A |
| In the green shadow of Ferrara wall | E |
| Or climbed among the images of the past | A |
| The unperturbed and courtly images | F |
| Evening and morning the steep street of Urbino | D |
| To where the Duchess and her people talked | A |
| The stately midnight through until they stood | A |
| In their great window looking at the dawn | D |
| I might have had no friend that could not mix | G |
| Courtesy and passion into one like those | H |
| That saw the wicks grow yellow in the dawn | D |
| I might have used the one substantial right | A |
| My trade allows chosen my company | D |
| And chosen what scenery had pleased me best | A |
| Thereon my phoenix answered in reproof | I |
| 'The drunkards pilferers of public funds | J |
| All the dishonest crowd I had driven away | K |
| When my luck changed and they dared meet my face | L |
| Crawled from obscurity and set upon me | D |
| Those I had served and some that I had fed | A |
| Yet never have I now nor any time | M |
| Complained of the people ' | N |
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| All I could reply | O |
| Was 'You that have not lived in thought but deed | A |
| Can have the purity of a natural force | P |
| But I whose virtues are the definitions | Q |
| Of the analytic mind can neither close | R |
| The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech ' | - |
| And yet because my heart leaped at her words | S |
| I was abashed and now they come to mind | A |
| After nine years I sink my head abashed | A |
William Butler Yeats
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