Vacillation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFDCFE A GHIHIHJJ A KLMNKNOP QDRSRDTU P VKWXWYYCCC P ZAA2PVB2 C2CICD2D2 A C2CIC2 VPE2F2 G2CG2H2 P I2I2J2J2K2K2 P PPUTCCPPL2L2M2M2

IA
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Between extremitiesB
Man runs his courseC
A brand or flaming breathD
Comes to destroyE
All those antinomiesC
Of day and nightF
The body calls it deathD
The heart remorseC
But if these be rightF
What is joyE
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IIA
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A tree there is that from its topmost boughG
Is half all glittering flame and half all greenH
Abounding foliage moistened with the dewI
And half is half and yet is all the sceneH
And half and half consume what they renewI
And he that Attis' image hangs betweenH
That staring fury and the blind lush leafJ
May know not what he knows but knows not griefJ
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IIIA
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Get all the gold and silver that you canK
Satisfy ambition animateL
The trivial days and ram them with the sunM
And yet upon these maxims meditateN
All women dote upon an idle manK
Although their children need a rich estateN
No man has ever lived that had enoughO
Of children's gratitude or woman's loveP
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No longer in Lethean foliage caughtQ
Begin the preparation for your deathD
And from the fortieth winter by that thoughtR
Test every work of intellect or faithS
And everything that your own hands have wroughtR
And call those works extravagance of breathD
That are not suited for such men as comeT
proud open eyed and laughing to the tombU
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IVP
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My fiftieth year had come and goneV
I sat a solitary manK
In a crowded London shopW
An open book and empty cupX
On the marble table topW
While on the shop and street I gazedY
My body of a sudden blazedY
And twenty minutes more or lessC
It seemed so great my happinessC
That I was blessed and could blessC
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VP
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Although the summer Sunlight gildZ
Cloudy leafage of the skyA
Or wintry moonlight sink the fieldA2
In storm scattered intricacyP
I cannot look thereonV
Responsibility so weighs me downB2
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Things said or done long years agoC2
Or things I did not do or sayC
But thought that I might say or doI
Weigh me down and not a dayC
But something is recalledD2
My conscience or my vanity appalledD2
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VIA
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A rivery field spread out belowC2
An odour of the new mown hayC
In his nostrils the great lord of ChouI
Cried casting off the mountain snowC2
'Let all things pass away '-
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Wheels by milk white asses drawnV
Where Babylon or NinevehP
Rose some conquer drew reinE2
And cried to battle weary menF2
'Let all things pass away '-
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From man's blood sodden heart are sprungG2
Those branches of the night and dayC
Where the gaudy moon is hungG2
What's the meaning of all songH2
'Let all things pass away '-
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VIIP
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The Soul Seek out reality leave things that seemI2
The Heart What be a singer born and lack a themeI2
The Soul Isaiah's coal what more can man desireJ2
The Heart Struck dumb in the simplicity of fireJ2
The Soul Look on that fire salvation walks withinK2
The Heart What theme had Homer but original sinK2
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VIIIP
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Must we part Von Hugel though much alike for weP
Accept the miracles of the saints and honour sanctityP
The body of Saint Teresa lies undecayed in tombU
Bathed in miraculous oil sweet odours from it comeT
Healing from its lettered slab Those self same hands perchanceC
Eternalised the body of a modern saint that onceC
Had scooped out pharaoh's mummy I though heart might find reliefP
Did I become a Christian man and choose for my beliefP
What seems most welcome in the tomb play a pre destined partL2
Homer is my example and his unchristened heartL2
The lion and the honeycomb what has Scripture saidM2
So get you gone Von Hugel though with blessings on your headM2

William Butler Yeats



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