Two Songs Of A Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDE FGFGGG AHAHII A JCJCGGGGKKGGGG| I | A |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| I slept on my three legged stool by the 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 |
William Butler Yeats
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