The Rose Of Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMM AANNOOPPQRMM| Rose of all Roses Rose of all the World | A |
| The tall thought woven sails that flap unfurled | A |
| Above the tide of hours trouble the air | B |
| And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care | B |
| While hushed from fear or loud with hope a band | C |
| With blown spray dabbled hair gather at hand | C |
| Turn if you may from battles never done | D |
| I call as they go by me one by one | D |
| Danger no refuge holds and war no peace | E |
| For him who hears love sing and never cease | E |
| Beside her clean swept hearth her quiet shade | F |
| But gather all for whom no love hath made | F |
| A woven silence or but came to cast | G |
| A song into the air and singing passed | G |
| To smile on the pale dawn and gather you | H |
| Who have sougft more than is in rain or dew | H |
| Or in the sun and moon or on the earth | I |
| Or sighs amid the wandering starry mirth | I |
| Or comes in laughter from the sea's sad lips | J |
| And wage God's battles in the long grey ships | J |
| The sad the lonely the insatiable | K |
| To these Old Night shall all her mystery tell | L |
| God's bell has claimed them by the little cry | M |
| Of their sad hearts that may not live nor die | M |
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| Rose of all Roses Rose of all the World | A |
| You too have come where the dim tides are hurled | A |
| Upon the wharves of sorrow and heard ring | N |
| The bell that calls us on the sweet far thing | N |
| Beauty grown sad with its eternity | O |
| Made you of us and of the dim grey sea | O |
| Our long ships loose thought woven sails and wait | P |
| For God has bid them share an equal fate | P |
| And when at last defeated in His wars | Q |
| They have gone down under the same white stars | R |
| We shall no longer hear the little cry | M |
| Of our sad hearts that may not live nor die | M |
William Butler Yeats
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