Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEDDFGHHIJKKAA| Why should not old men be mad | A |
| Some have known a likely lad | A |
| That had a sound fly fisher's wrist | B |
| Turn to a drunken journalist | C |
| A girl that knew all Dante once | D |
| Live to bear children to a dunce | D |
| A Helen of social welfare dream | E |
| Climb on a wagonette to scream | E |
| Some think it a matter of course that chance | D |
| Should starve good men and bad advance | D |
| That if their neighbours figured plain | F |
| As though upon a lighted screen | G |
| No single story would they find | H |
| Of an unbroken happy mind | H |
| A finish worthy of the start | I |
| Young men know nothing of this sort | J |
| Observant old men know it well | K |
| And when they know what old books tell | K |
| And that no better can be had | A |
| Know why an old man should be mad | A |
William Butler Yeats
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