Words For Music Perhaps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDDCEECFGFCHICJJJ CKKCLMMC M NONPQRSTJTJUES M VMSSMWCX CSMSMMYCY C E MYMZMZA2CMCMCYMMMMM M MMMB2B2MC2MD2E2MF2MG 2AH2MWMWYUM A MC2I2C2J2 K2ML2MG2MD2MK2MS G2 M2L2M2CM2CL2ML2MMMML 2C2N2C2C2C2C2L2 O2 YP2EP2C2C2C2C2O2C2Q2 C2 O2 C2 C2R2C2YB2C2B2C2G2 C2C2C2CC2C C C2S2C2C2S2C2D2T2C2D2 T2C2 G2 C2UC2J2D2D2P2U2B2V2G 2G2 G2 G2C2G2C2G2C2B2W2WW2S 2W2 C SCSCC2M2C2M2 J2 SC2SC2C2C2C2EC2J2M2M 2 G2 X2JC2C2C2 X2B2D2D2C2 X2C2EEC2 C2 C2C2G2C2C2G2Y2EEY2I2 ESZ2M2SZ2I CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP | A |
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BRING me to the blasted oak | B |
That I midnight upon the stroke | B |
All find safety in the tomb | C |
May call down curses on his head | D |
Because of my dear Jack that's dead | D |
Coxcomb was the least he said | D |
The solid man and the coxcomb | C |
Nor was he Bishop when his ban | E |
Banished Jack the Journeyman | E |
All find safety in the tomb | C |
Nor so much as parish priest | F |
Yet he an old book in his fist | G |
Cried that we lived like beast and beast | F |
The solid man and the coxcomb | C |
The Bishop has a skin God knows | H |
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose | I |
All find safety in the tomb | C |
Nor can he hide in holy black | J |
The heron's hunch upon his back | J |
But a birch tree stood my Jack | J |
The solid man and the coxcomb | C |
Jack had my virginity | K |
And bids me to the oak for he | K |
all find safety in the tomb | C |
Wanders out into the night | L |
And there is shelter under it | M |
But should that other come I spit | M |
The solid man and the coxcomb | C |
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II CRAZY JANE REPROVED | M |
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I CARE not what the sailors say | N |
All those dreadful thunder stones | O |
All that storm that blots the day | N |
Can but show that Heaven yawns | P |
Great Europa played the fool | Q |
That changed a lover for a bull | R |
Fol de rol fol de rol | S |
To round that shell's elaborate whorl | T |
Adorning every secret track | J |
With the delicate mother of pearl | T |
Made the joints of Heaven crack | J |
So never hang your heart upon | U |
A roaring ranting journeyman | E |
Fol de rol fol de rol | S |
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III CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT | M |
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'LOVE is all | V |
Unsatisfied | M |
That cannot take the whole | S |
Body and soul' | S |
And that is what Jane said | M |
'Take the sour | W |
If you take me | C |
I can scoff and lour | X |
And scold for an hour ' | - |
'That's certainly the case ' said he | C |
'Naked I lay | S |
The grass my bed | M |
Naked and hidden away | S |
That black day' | M |
And that is what Jane said | M |
'What can be shown | Y |
What true love be | C |
All could be known or shown | Y |
If Time were but gone ' | - |
'That's certainly the case ' said he | C |
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IV CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN | E |
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I KNOW although when looks meet | M |
I tremble to the bone | Y |
The more I leave the door unlatched | M |
The sooner love is gone | Z |
For love is but a skein unwound | M |
Between the dark and dawn | Z |
A lonely ghost the ghost is | A2 |
That to God shall come | C |
I love's skein upon the ground | M |
My body in the tomb | C |
Shall leap into the light lost | M |
In my mother's womb | C |
But were I left to lie alone | Y |
In an empty bed | M |
The skein so bound us ghost to ghost | M |
When he turned his head | M |
passing on the road that night | M |
Mine must walk when dead | M |
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V CRAZY JANE ON GOD | M |
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THAT lover of a night | M |
Came when he would | M |
Went in the dawning light | M |
Whether I would or no | B2 |
Men come men go | B2 |
All things remain in God | M |
Banners choke the sky | C2 |
Men at arms tread | M |
Armoured horses neigh | D2 |
In the narrow pass | E2 |
All things remain in God | M |
Before their eyes a house | F2 |
That from childhood stood | M |
Uninhabited ruinous | G2 |
Suddenly lit up | A |
From door to top | H2 |
All things remain in God | M |
I had wild Jack for a lover | W |
Though like a road | M |
That men pass over | W |
My body makes no moan | Y |
But sings on | U |
All things remain in God | M |
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VI CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP | A |
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I MET the Bishop on the road | M |
And much said he and I | C2 |
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now | I2 |
Those veins must soon be dry | C2 |
Live in a heavenly mansion | J2 |
Not in some foul sty ' | - |
'Fair and foul are near of kin | K2 |
And fair needs foul ' I cried | M |
'My friends are gone but that's a truth | L2 |
Nor grave nor bed denied | M |
Learned in bodily lowliness | G2 |
And in the heart's pride | M |
'A woman can be proud and stiff | D2 |
When on love intent | M |
But Love has pitched his mansion in | K2 |
The place of excrement | M |
For nothing can be sole or whole | S |
That has not been rent ' | - |
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VII CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS | G2 |
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I FOUND that ivory image there | M2 |
Dancing with her chosen youth | L2 |
But when he wound her coal black hair | M2 |
As though to strangle her no scream | C |
Or bodily movement did I dare | M2 |
Eyes under eyelids did so gleam | C |
Love is like the lion's tooth | L2 |
When She and though some said she played | M |
I said that she had danced heart's truth | L2 |
Drew a knife to strike him dead | M |
I could but leave him to his fate | M |
For no matter what is said | M |
They had all that had their hate | M |
Love is like the lion's tooth | L2 |
Did he die or did she die | C2 |
Seemed to die or died they both | N2 |
God be with the times when I | C2 |
Cared not a thraneen for what chanced | C2 |
So that I had the limbs to try | C2 |
Such a dance as there was danced | C2 |
Love is like the lion's tooth | L2 |
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VIII GIRL'S SONG | O2 |
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I WENT out alone | Y |
To sing a song or two | P2 |
My fancy on a man | E |
And you know who | P2 |
Another came in sight | C2 |
That on a stick relied | C2 |
To hold himself upright | C2 |
I sat and cried | C2 |
And that was all my song | O2 |
When everything is told | C2 |
Saw I an old man young | Q2 |
Or young man old | C2 |
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IX YOUNG MAN'S SONG | O2 |
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'SHE will change ' I cried | C2 |
'Into a withered crone ' | - |
The heart in my side | C2 |
That so still had lain | R2 |
In noble rage replied | C2 |
And beat upon the bone | Y |
'Uplift those eyes and throw | B2 |
Those glances unafraid | C2 |
She would as bravely show | B2 |
Did all the fabric fade | C2 |
No withered crone I saw | G2 |
Before the world was made ' | - |
Abashed by that report | C2 |
For the heart cannot lie | C2 |
I knelt in the dirt | C2 |
And all shall bend the knee | C |
To my offended heart | C2 |
Until it pardon me | C |
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X HER ANXIETY | C |
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EARTH in beauty dressed | C2 |
Awaits returning spring | S2 |
All true love must die | C2 |
Alter at the best | C2 |
Into some lesser thing | S2 |
Prove that I lie | C2 |
Such body lovers have | D2 |
Such exacting breath | T2 |
That they touch or sigh | C2 |
Every touch they give | D2 |
Love is nearer death | T2 |
Prove that I lie | C2 |
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XI HIS CONFIDENCE | G2 |
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UNDYING love to buy | C2 |
I wrote upon | U |
The corners of this eye | C2 |
All wrongs done | J2 |
What payment were enough | D2 |
For undying love | D2 |
I broke my heart in two | P2 |
So hard I struck | U2 |
What matter for I know | B2 |
That out of rock | V2 |
Out of a desolate source | G2 |
Love leaps upon its course | G2 |
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XII LOVE'S LONELINESS | G2 |
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OLD fathers great grandfathers | G2 |
Rise as kindred should | C2 |
If ever lover's loneliness | G2 |
Came where you stood | C2 |
Pray that Heaven protect us | G2 |
That protect your blood | C2 |
The mountain throws a shadow | B2 |
Thin is the moon's horn | W2 |
What did we remember | W |
Under the ragged thorn | W2 |
Dread has followed longing | S2 |
And our hearts are torn | W2 |
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XIII HER DREAM | C |
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I DREAMED as in my bed I lay | S |
All night's fathomless wisdom come | C |
That I had shorn my locks away | S |
And laid them on Love's lettered tomb | C |
But something bore them out of sight | C2 |
In a great tumult of the air | M2 |
And after nailed upon the night | C2 |
Berenice's burning hair | M2 |
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XIV HIS BARGAIN | J2 |
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WHO talks of Plato's spindle | S |
What set it whirling round | C2 |
Eternity may dwindle | S |
Time is unwound | C2 |
Dan and Jerry Lout | C2 |
Change their loves about | C2 |
However they may take it | C2 |
Before the thread began | E |
I made and may not break it | C2 |
When the last thread has run | J2 |
A bargain with that hair | M2 |
And all the windings there | M2 |
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XV THREE THINGS | G2 |
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'O CRUEL Death give three things back ' | - |
Sang a bone upon the shore | X2 |
'A child found all a child can lack | J |
Whether of pleasure or of rest | C2 |
Upon the abundance of my breast' | C2 |
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind | C2 |
'Three dear things that women know ' | - |
Sang a bhone upon the shore | X2 |
'A man if I but held him so | B2 |
When my body was alive | D2 |
Found all the pleasure that life gave' | D2 |
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind | C2 |
'The third thing that I think of yet ' | - |
Sang a bone upon the shore | X2 |
'Is that morning when I met | C2 |
Face to face my rightful man | E |
And did after stretch and yawn' | E |
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind | C2 |
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XVI LULLABY | C2 |
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BELOVED may your sleep be sound | C2 |
That have found it where you fed | C2 |
What were all the world's alarms | G2 |
To mighty paris when he found | C2 |
Sleep upon a golden bed | C2 |
That first dawn in Helen's arms | G2 |
Sleep beloved such a sleep | Y2 |
As did that wild Tristram know | E |
When the potion's work being done | E |
Roe could run or doe could leap | Y2 |
Under oak and beechen bough | I2 |
Roe could leap or doe could run | E |
Such a sleep and sound as fell | S |
Upon Eurotas' grassy bank | Z2 |
When the holy bird that there | M2 |
Accomplished his predestined will | S |
From the limbs of Leda sank | Z2 |
William Butler Yeats
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