Under The Round Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDC EFGFHH IJHJKL IMHMNN OPOQ| 'Although I'd lie lapped up in linen | A |
| A deal I'd sweat and little earn | B |
| If I should live as live the neighbours ' | C |
| Cried the beggar Billy Byrne | B |
| 'Stretch bones till the daylight come | D |
| On great grandfather's battered tomb ' | C |
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| Upon a grey old battered tombstone | E |
| In Glendalough beside the stream | F |
| Where the O'Byrnes and Byrnes are buried | G |
| He stretched his bones and fell in a dream | F |
| Of sun and moon that a good hour | H |
| Bellowed and pranced in the round tower | H |
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| Of golden king and Silver lady | I |
| Bellowing up and bellowing round | J |
| Till toes mastered a sweet measure | H |
| Mouth mastered a sweet sound | J |
| Prancing round and prancing up | K |
| Until they pranced upon the top | L |
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| That golden king and that wild lady | I |
| Sang till stars began to fade | M |
| Hands gripped in hands toes close together | H |
| Hair spread on the wind they made | M |
| That lady and that golden king | N |
| Could like a brace of blackbirds sing | N |
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| 'It's certain that my luck is broken ' | - |
| That rambling jailbird Billy said | O |
| 'Before nightfall I'll pick a pocket | P |
| And snug it in a feather bed | O |
| I cannot find the peace of home | Q |
| On great grandfather's battered tomb ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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