The Wild Old Wicked Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFH GIG JKL H CMIMCFN H OPQPRSTUH VWQXYZSZH A2B2C2B2D2E2F2E2D2 A2FA2FVD2G2 D2| Because I am mad about women | A |
| I am mad about the hills ' | B |
| Said that wild old wicked man | C |
| Who travels where God wills | D |
| 'Not to die on the straw at home | E |
| Those hands to close these eyes | F |
| That is all I ask my dear | G |
| From the old man in the skies | F |
| Daybreak and a candle end | H |
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| 'Kind are all your words my dear | G |
| Do not the rest withhold | I |
| Who can know the year my dear | G |
| when an old man's blood grows cold ' | - |
| I have what no young man can have | J |
| Because he loves too much | K |
| Words I have that can pierce the heart | L |
| But what can he do but touch ' | - |
| Daybreak and a candle end | H |
| - | |
| Then Said she to that wild old man | C |
| His stout stick under his hand | M |
| 'Love to give or to withhold | I |
| Is not at my command | M |
| I gave it all to an older man | C |
| That old man in the skies | F |
| Hands that are busy with His beads | N |
| Can never close those eyes ' | - |
| Daybreak and a candle end | H |
| - | |
| 'Go your ways O go your ways | O |
| I choose another mark | P |
| Girls down on the seashore | Q |
| Who understand the dark | P |
| Bawdy talk for the fishermen | R |
| A dance for the fisher lads | S |
| When dark hangs upon the water | T |
| They turn down their beds | U |
| Daybreak and a candle end | H |
| - | |
| 'A young man in the dark am I | V |
| But a wild old man in the light | W |
| That can make a cat laugh or | Q |
| Can touch by mother wit | X |
| Things hid in their marrow bones | Y |
| From time long passed away | Z |
| Hid from all those warty lads | S |
| That by their bodies lay | Z |
| Dayhreak and a candle end | H |
| - | |
| 'All men live in suffering | A2 |
| I know as few can know | B2 |
| Whether they take the upper road | C2 |
| Or stay content on the low | B2 |
| Rower bent in his row boat | D2 |
| Or weaver bent at his loom | E2 |
| Horseman erect upon horseback | F2 |
| Or child hid in the womb | E2 |
| Daybreak and a candlc cnd | D2 |
| - | |
| 'That some stream of lightning | A2 |
| From the old man in the skies | F |
| Can burn out that suffering | A2 |
| No right taught man denies | F |
| But a coarse old man am I | V |
| I choose the second best | D2 |
| I forget it all awhile | G2 |
| Upon a woman's breast ' | - |
| Daybreak and a candlc end | D2 |
William Butler Yeats
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