Towards Break Of Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED DF GHGIIJJ BKBLMLL| Was it the double of my dream | A |
| The woman that by me lay | B |
| Dreamed or did we halve a dream | A |
| Under the first cold gleam of day | B |
| - | |
| I thought There is a waterfall | C |
| Upon Ben Bulben side | D |
| That all my childhood counted dear | E |
| Were I to travel far and wide | D |
| I could not find a thing so dear ' | - |
| My memories had magnified | D |
| So many times childish delight | F |
| - | |
| I would have touched it like a child | G |
| But knew my finger could but have touched | H |
| Cold stone and water I grew wild | G |
| Even accusing Heaven because | I |
| It had set down among its laws | I |
| Nothing that we love over much | J |
| Is ponderable to our touch | J |
| - | |
| I dreamed towards break of day | B |
| The cold blown spray in my nostril | K |
| But she that beside me lay | B |
| Had watched in bitterer sleep | L |
| The marvellous stag of Arthur | M |
| That lofty white stag leap | L |
| From mountain steep to steep | L |
William Butler Yeats
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Towards Break Of Day
Towards Break Of Day is a poem by William Butler Yeats. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Towards Break Of Day poem by William Butler Yeats
Best Poems of William Butler Yeats