The Wild Swans at Coole

RHYMING SCHEME

• ABCBDD

THEMES

• Nature

• Lament

• Old age

QUOTES

• “The trees are in their autumn beauty, the woodland paths are dry”

• “Under the October twilight the water mirrors a still sky”

• “Upon the brimming water among the stones are nine-and-fifty swans”

• “The nineteenth autumn has come upon me”

• “Upon their clamorous wings”

• “Now my heart is sore”

• “Unwearied still, lover by lover/ They paddle in the cold/ Companionable streams”

• “Their hearts have not grown old”

• “Passion or conquest, wander where they will, attend upon them still”

• “Mysterious, beautiful”