To Songs Of A Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFGFGGGAHAHIIJ CJCGGGGKKGGGG H ALALJMNMOGOG

IA
A SPECKLED cat and a tame hareB
Eat at my hearthstoneC
And sleep thereB
And both look up to me aloneC
For learning and defenceD
As I look up to providenceE
I start out of my sleep to thinkF
Some day I may forgetG
Their food and drinkF
Or the house door left unshutG
The hare may run till it's foundG
The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the houndG
I bear a burden that might well tryA
Men that do all by ruleH
And what can IA
That am a wandering witted foolH
But pray to God that He easeI
My great responsibilitiesI
I slept on my three legged stool by thc fireJ
The speckled cat slept on my kneeC
We never thought to enquireJ
Where the brown hare might beC
And whether the door were shutG
Who knows how she drank the windG
Stretched up on two legs from the matG
Before she had settled her mindG
To drum with her heel and to leapK
Had I but awakened from sleepK
And called her name she had heardG
It may be and had not stirredG
That now it may be has foundG
The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the houndG
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ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOLH
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THIS great purple butterflyA
In the prison of my handsL
Has a learning in his eyeA
Not a poor fool understandsL
Once he lived a schoolmasterJ
With a stark denying lookM
A string of scholars went in fearN
Of his great birch and his great bookM
Like the clangour of a bellO
Sweet and harsh harsh and sweetG
That is how he learnt so wellO
To take the roses for his meatG

William Butler Yeats



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