Delusion Of Saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJJKLLMJJNOP OJQDPOJJ| The old pagan burials uninscribed rock | A |
| Secret keeping mounds | B |
| Have shed the feeble delusions that built them | C |
| They stand inhumanly | D |
| Clean and massive they have lost their priests | E |
| But the cross bearing stones | F |
| Still foot corruption and their faces carved | G |
| With hopes and terrors | H |
| At length too savagely annulled to be left | I |
| Even ridiculous | J |
| Long suffering saints flamelike aspirers | J |
| You have won your reward | K |
| You sleep now as easily as any dead murderer | L |
| Or worn out lecher | L |
| To have found your faith a liar is no thorn | M |
| In the narrow beds | J |
| Nor laughter of unfriends nor rumor of the ruinous | J |
| Churches will reach you | N |
| As at Clonmacnoise I saw them all ruined | O |
| And at Cong at Glendalough | P |
| At Monasterboice and at Kilrnacduagh | O |
| All ruined all roofless | J |
| But the great cyclopean stoned spire | Q |
| That leans toward its fall | D |
| A place perfectly abandoned of life | P |
| Except that we heard | O |
| One old horse neighing across the stone hedges | J |
| In the flooded fields | J |
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