The Withering Of The Boughs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDED FGFEHDED IJIEJDED| I cried when the moon was mutmuring to the birds | A |
| 'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will | B |
| I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words | A |
| For the roads are unending and there is no place to my mind ' | C |
| The honey pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill | B |
| And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge of streams | D |
| No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind | E |
| The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams | D |
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| I know of the leafy paths that the witches take | F |
| Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool | G |
| And their secret smile out of the depths of the lake | F |
| I know where a dim moon drifts where the Danaan kind | E |
| Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool | H |
| On the island lawns their feet where the pale foam gleams | D |
| No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind | E |
| The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams | D |
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| I know of the sleepy country where swans fly round | I |
| Coupled with golden chains and sing as they fly | J |
| A king and a queen are wandering there and the sound | I |
| Has made them so happy and hopeless so deaf and so blind | E |
| With wisdom they wander till all the years have gone by | J |
| I know and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams | D |
| No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind | E |
| The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams | D |
William Butler Yeats
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