The Second Coming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADEF GGHFIJKLMNOPQR| Turning and turning in the widening gyre | A |
| The falcon cannot hear the falconer | A |
| Things fall apart the centre cannot hold | B |
| Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | C |
| The blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere | A |
| The ceremony of innocence is drowned | D |
| The best lack all conviction while the worst | E |
| Are full of passionate intensity | F |
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| Surely some revelation is at hand | G |
| Surely the Second Coming is at hand | G |
| The Second Coming Hardly are those words out | H |
| When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi | F |
| Troubles my sight somewhere in sands of the desert | I |
| A shape with lion body and the head of a man | J |
| A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun | K |
| Is moving its slow thighs while all about it | L |
| Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds | M |
| The darkness drops again but now I know | N |
| That twenty centuries of stony sleep | O |
| Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle | P |
| And what rough beast its hour come round at last | Q |
| Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born | R |
William Butler Yeats
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