The Wild Swans At Coole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE AFGFHH IJKJLL CMNMOO CPQRSS| The trees are in their autumn beauty | A |
| The woodland paths are dry | B |
| Under the October twilight the water | C |
| Mirrors a still sky | B |
| Upon the brimming water among the stones | D |
| Are nine and fifty Swans | E |
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| The nineteenth autumn has come upon me | A |
| Since I first made my count | F |
| I saw before I had well finished | G |
| All suddenly mount | F |
| And scatter wheeling in great broken rings | H |
| Upon their clamorous wings | H |
| - | |
| I have looked upon those brilliant creatures | I |
| And now my heart is sore | J |
| All's changed since I hearing at twilight | K |
| The first time on this shore | J |
| The bell beat of their wings above my head | L |
| Trod with a lighter tread | L |
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| Unwearied still lover by lover | C |
| They paddle in the cold | M |
| Companionable streams or climb the air | N |
| Their hearts have not grown old | M |
| Passion or conquest wander where they will | O |
| Attend upon them still | O |
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| But now they drift on the still water | C |
| Mysterious beautiful | P |
| Among what rushes will they build | Q |
| By what lake's edge or pool | R |
| Delight men's eyes when I awake some day | S |
| To find they have flown away | S |
William Butler Yeats
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