The White Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAA| I would that we were my beloved white birds on the foam of the sea | A |
| We tire of the flame of the meteor before it can fade and flee | A |
| And the flame of the blue star of twilight hung low on the rim of the sky | B |
| Has awaked in our hearts my beloved a sadness that may not die | B |
| A weariness comes from those dreamers dew dabbled the lily and rose | C |
| Ah dream not of them my beloved the flame of the meteor that goes | C |
| Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew | D |
| For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam I and you | D |
| I am haunted by numberless islands and many a Danaan shore | E |
| Where Time would surely forget us and Sorrow come near us no more | E |
| Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be | A |
| Were we only white birds my beloved buoyed out on the foam of the sea | A |
William Butler Yeats
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