The Pilgrim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDBBC EEBBC FGBBC HHBBC| I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk | A |
| For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk | A |
| In country shawl or Paris cloak had put my wits astray | B |
| And what's the good of women for all that they can say | B |
| Is fol de rol de rolly O | C |
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| Round Lough Derg's holy island I went upon the stones | D |
| I prayed at all the Stations upon my matrow bones | D |
| And there I found an old man and though I prayed all day | B |
| And that old man beside me nothing would he say | B |
| But fol de rol de rolly O | C |
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| All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck | E |
| And that should mother seek her son she'd have but little luck | E |
| Because the fires of purgatory have ate their shapes away | B |
| I swear to God I questioned them and all they had to say | B |
| Was fol de rol de rolly O | C |
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| A great black ragged bird appeared when I was in the boat | F |
| Some twenty feet from tip to tip had it stretched rightly out | G |
| With flopping and with flapping it made a great display | B |
| But I never stopped to question what could the boatman say | B |
| But fol de rol de rolly O | C |
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| Now I am in the public house and lean upon the wall | H |
| So come in rags or come in silk in cloak or country shawl | H |
| And come with learned lovers or with what men you may | B |
| For I can put the whole lot down and all I have to say | B |
| Is fol de rol de rolly O | C |
William Butler Yeats
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