To Songs Of A Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFGFGGGAHAHIIJ CJCGGGGKKGGGG H ALALJMNMOGOGI | A |
A SPECKLED cat and a tame hare | B |
Eat at my hearthstone | C |
And sleep there | B |
And both look up to me alone | C |
For learning and defence | D |
As I look up to providence | E |
I start out of my sleep to think | F |
Some day I may forget | G |
Their food and drink | F |
Or the house door left unshut | G |
The hare may run till it's found | G |
The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound | G |
I bear a burden that might well try | A |
Men that do all by rule | H |
And what can I | A |
That am a wandering witted fool | H |
But pray to God that He ease | I |
My great responsibilities | I |
I slept on my three legged stool by thc fire | J |
The speckled cat slept on my knee | C |
We never thought to enquire | J |
Where the brown hare might be | C |
And whether the door were shut | G |
Who knows how she drank the wind | G |
Stretched up on two legs from the mat | G |
Before she had settled her mind | G |
To drum with her heel and to leap | K |
Had I but awakened from sleep | K |
And called her name she had heard | G |
It may be and had not stirred | G |
That now it may be has found | G |
The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound | G |
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ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL | H |
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THIS great purple butterfly | A |
In the prison of my hands | L |
Has a learning in his eye | A |
Not a poor fool understands | L |
Once he lived a schoolmaster | J |
With a stark denying look | M |
A string of scholars went in fear | N |
Of his great birch and his great book | M |
Like the clangour of a bell | O |
Sweet and harsh harsh and sweet | G |
That is how he learnt so well | O |
To take the roses for his meat | G |
William Butler Yeats
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