Antrim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJK LMNOPQORFSTOR| No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time | A |
| Fought and survived and cancelled each other | B |
| Pict and Gael and Dane McQuillan Clandonnel O'Neill | C |
| Savages the Scot the Norman the English | D |
| Here in the narrow passage and the pitiless north perpetual | E |
| Betrayals relentless resultless fighting | F |
| A random fury of dirks in the dark a struggle for survival | E |
| Of hungry blind cells of life in the womb | G |
| But now the womb has grown old her strength has gone forth | H |
| a few red carts in a fog creak flax to the dubs | I |
| And sheep in the high heather cry hungrily that life is hard a | J |
| plaintive peace shepherds and peasants | K |
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| We have felt the blades meet in the flesh in a hundred ambushes | L |
| And the groaning blood bubble in the throat | M |
| In a hundred battles the heavy axes bite the deep bone | N |
| The mountain suddenly stagger and be darkened | O |
| Generation on generation we have seen the blood of boys | P |
| And heard the moaning of women massacred | Q |
| The passionate flesh and nerves have flamed like pitch pine and | O |
| fallen | R |
| And lain in the earth softly dissolving | F |
| I have lain and been humbled in all these graves and mixed new | S |
| flesh with the old and filled the hollow of my mouth | T |
| With maggots and rotten dust and ages of repose I lie here and | O |
| plot the agony of resurrection | R |
Robinson Jeffers
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