The Statesman's Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJ KLMLNOPQRHSHJ TUVWXYLYQZKA2JI LIVED among great houses | A |
Riches drove out rank | B |
Base drove out the better blood | C |
And mind and body shrank | B |
No Oscar ruled the table | D |
But I'd a troop of friends | E |
That knowing better talk had gone | F |
Talked of odds and ends | E |
Some knew what ailed the world | G |
But never said a thing | H |
So I have picked a better trade | I |
And night and morning sing | H |
Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
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Am I a great Lord Chancellor | K |
That slept upon the Sack | L |
Commanding officer that tore | M |
The khaki from his back | L |
Or am I de Valera | N |
Or the King of Greece | O |
Or the man that made the motors | P |
Ach call me what you please | Q |
Here's a Montenegrin lute | R |
And its old sole string | H |
Makes me sweet music | S |
And I delight to sing | H |
Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
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With boys and girls about him | T |
With any sort of clothes | U |
With a hat out of fashion | V |
With Old patched shoes | W |
With a ragged bandit cloak | X |
With an eye like a hawk | Y |
With a stiff straight back | L |
With a strutting turkey walk | Y |
With a bag full of pennies | Q |
With a monkey on a chain | Z |
With a great cock's feather | K |
With an old foul tune | A2 |
Tall dames go walking in grass green Avalon | J |
William Butler Yeats
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