The Sad Shepherd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDAEFFEBBBBAGGA HBBHIJJI| There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend | A |
| And he of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming | B |
| Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming | B |
| And humming Sands where windy surges wend | A |
| And he called loudly to the stars to bend | A |
| From their pale thrones and comfort him but they | C |
| Among themselves laugh on and sing alway | D |
| And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend | A |
| Cried out Dim sea hear my most piteous story | E |
| The sea Swept on and cried her old cry still | F |
| Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill | F |
| He fled the persecution of her glory | E |
| And in a far off gentle valley stopping | B |
| Cried all his story to the dewdrops glistening | B |
| But naught they heard for they are always listening | B |
| The dewdrops for the sound of their own dropping | B |
| And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend | A |
| Sought once again the shore and found a shell | G |
| And thought I will my heavy story tell | G |
| Till my own words re echoing shall send | A |
| Their sadness through a hollow pearly heart | H |
| And my own talc again for me shall sing | B |
| And my own whispering words be comforting | B |
| And lo my ancient burden may depart | H |
| Then he sang softly nigh the pearly rim | I |
| But the sad dweller by the sea ways lone | J |
| Changed all he sang to inarticulate moan | J |
| Among her wildering whirls forgetting him | I |
William Butler Yeats
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