When Helen Lived Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHGH| We have cried in our despair | A |
| That men desert | B |
| For some trivial affair | A |
| Or noisy insolent sport | C |
| Beauty that we have won | D |
| From bitterest hours | E |
| Yet we had we walked within | F |
| Those topless towers | E |
| Where Helen waked with her boy | G |
| Had given but as the rest | H |
| Of the men and women of Troy | G |
| A word and a jest | H |
William Butler Yeats
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