The Secret Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLMMMNNOOMM| Far off most secret and inviolate Rose | A |
| Enfold me in my hour of hours where those | A |
| Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre | B |
| Or in the wine vat dwell beyond the stir | B |
| And tumult of defeated dreams and deep | C |
| Among pale eyelids heavy with the sleep | C |
| Men have named beauty Thy great leaves enfold | D |
| The ancient beards the helms of ruby and gold | D |
| Of the crowned Magi and the king whose eyes | E |
| Saw the pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise | E |
| In Druid vapour and make the torches dim | F |
| Till vain frenzy awoke and he died and him | F |
| Who met Fand walking among flaming dew | G |
| By a grey shore where the wind never blew | G |
| And lost the world and Emer for a kiss | H |
| And him who drove the gods out of their liss | H |
| And till a hundred moms had flowered red | I |
| Feasted and wept the barrows of his dead | I |
| And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown | J |
| And sorrow away and calling bard and clown | J |
| Dwelt among wine stained wanderers in deep woods | K |
| And him who sold tillage and house and goods | K |
| And sought through lands and islands numberless years | L |
| Until he found with laughter and with tears | M |
| A woman of so shining loveliness | M |
| That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress | M |
| A little stolen tress I too await | N |
| The hour of thy great wind of love and hate | N |
| When shall the stars be blown about the sky | O |
| Like the sparks blown out of a smithy and die | O |
| Surely thine hour has come thy great wind blows | M |
| Far off most secret and inviolate Rose | M |
William Butler Yeats
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