Cyclopean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGH IIJJ| A mountainous and mystic brute | A |
| No rein can curb no arrow shoot | A |
| Upon whose domed deformed back | B |
| I sweep the planets scorching track | B |
| - | |
| Old is the elf and wise men say | C |
| His hair grows green as ours grows grey | C |
| He mocks the stars with myriad hands | D |
| High as that swinging forest stands | D |
| - | |
| But though in pigmy wanderings dull | E |
| I scour the deserts of his skull | E |
| I never find the face eyes teeth | F |
| Lowering or laughing underneath | F |
| - | |
| I met my foe in an empty dell | G |
| His face in the sun was naked hell | G |
| I thought 'One silent bloody blow | H |
| No priest would curse no crowd would know ' | - |
| - | |
| Then cowered a daisy half concealed | I |
| Watched for the fame of that poor field | I |
| And in that flower and suddenly | J |
| Earth opened its one eye on me | J |
G. K. Chesterton
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