Tom The Lunatic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAD BEFGBH IEJKI| Sang old Tom the lunatic | A |
| That sleeps under the canopy | B |
| 'What change has put my thoughts astray | C |
| And eyes that had s o keen a sight | D |
| What has turned to smoking wick | A |
| Nature's pure unchanging light | D |
| - | |
| 'Huddon and Duddon and Daniel O'Leary | B |
| Holy Joe the beggar man | E |
| Wenching drinking still remain | F |
| Or sing a penance on the road | G |
| Something made these eyeballs weary | B |
| That blinked and saw them in a shroud | H |
| - | |
| 'Whatever stands in field or flood | I |
| Bird beast fish or man | E |
| Mare or stallion cock or hen | J |
| Stands in God's unchanging eye | K |
| In all the vigour of its blood | I |
| In that faith I live or die ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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