A Land Without Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEBFG HHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQ| A land without ruins is a land without memories | A |
| a land without memories is a land without history | B |
| A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see | B |
| but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land | C |
| and be that land barren beautiless and bleak it becomes lovely | B |
| in its consecrated coronet of sorrow and it wins the sympathy of the heart | D |
| and of history Crowns of roses fade crowns of thorns endure | E |
| Calvaries and crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity | B |
| the triumphs of might are transient they pass and are forgotten | F |
| the sufferings of right are graven deepest on the chronicle of nations | G |
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| Yes give me the land where the ruins are spread | H |
| And the living tread light on the hearts of the dead | H |
| Yes give me a land that is blest by the dust | I |
| And bright with the deeds of the down trodden just | I |
| Yes give me the land where the battle's red blast | J |
| Has flashed to the future the fame of the past | J |
| Yes give me the land that hath legends and lays | K |
| That tell of the memories of long vanished days | K |
| Yes give me a land that hath story and song | L |
| Enshrine the strife of the right with the wrong | L |
| Yes give me a land with a grave in each spot | M |
| And names in the graves that shall not be forgot | M |
| Yes give me the land of the wreck and the tomb | N |
| There is grandeur in graves there is glory in gloom | N |
| For out of the gloom future brightness is born | O |
| As after the night comes the sunrise of morn | O |
| And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown | P |
| May yet form the footstool of liberty's throne | P |
| And each single wreck in the war path of might | Q |
| Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right | Q |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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