The Saint And The Hunchback Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EEFFGHFF IJFF| Hunchback Stand up and lift your hand and bless | A |
| A man that finds great bitterness | B |
| In thinking of his lost renown | C |
| A Roman Caesar is held down | C |
| Under this hump | D |
| - | |
| Saint God tries each man | E |
| According to a different plan | E |
| I shall not cease to bless because | F |
| I lay about me with the taws | F |
| That night and morning I may thrash | G |
| Greek Alexander from my flesh | H |
| Augustus Caesar and after these | F |
| That great rogue Alcibiades | F |
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| Hunchback To all that in your flesh have stood | I |
| And blessed I give my gratitude | J |
| Honoured by all in their degrees | F |
| But most to Alcibiades | F |
William Butler Yeats
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