The Well And The Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECA FCFGGC| 'The man that I praise ' | A |
| Cries out the empty well | B |
| 'Lives all his days | C |
| Where a hand on the bell | B |
| Can call the milch cows | D |
| To the comfortable door of his house | E |
| Who but an idiot would praise | C |
| Dry stones in a well ' | A |
| - | |
| 'The Man that I praise ' | - |
| Cries out the leafless tree | F |
| 'Has married and stays | C |
| By an old hearth and he | F |
| On naught has set store | G |
| But children and dogs on the floor | G |
| Who but an idiot would praise | C |
| A withered tree ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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connor: both speakers denigrate themselves. It's very unclear which voice has the better idea about what is the right way to live
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