The Three Hermits Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHHHHIJIJ GKGKLBLGAHDH| Three old hermits took the air | A |
| By a cold and desolate sea | B |
| First was muttering a prayer | A |
| Second rummaged for a flea | B |
| On a windy stone the third | C |
| Giddy with his hundredth year | D |
| Sang unnoticed like a bird | C |
| 'Though the Door of Death is near | D |
| And what waits behind the door | E |
| Three times in a single day | F |
| I though upright on the shore | E |
| Fall asleep when I should pray ' | G |
| So the first but now the second | H |
| 'We're but given what we have eamed | H |
| When all thoughts and deeds are reckoned | H |
| So it's plain to be discerned | H |
| That the shades of holy men | I |
| Who have failed being weak of will | J |
| Pass the Door of Birth again | I |
| And are plagued by crowds until | J |
| They've the passion to escape ' | G |
| Moaned the other 'They are thrown | K |
| Into some most fearful shape ' | G |
| But the second mocked his moan | K |
| 'They are not changed to anything | L |
| Having loved God once but maybe | B |
| To a poet or a king | L |
| Or a witty lovely lady ' | G |
| While he'd rummaged rags and hair | A |
| Caught and cracked his flea the third | H |
| Giddy with his hundredth year | D |
| Sang unnoticed like a bird | H |
William Butler Yeats
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