The Giant-s Ring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIJKELMNHOEP QERSTRRR| BALLYLESSON NEAR BELFAST | A |
| Whoever is able will pursue the plainly | B |
| False immortality of not having lived in vain but leaving some | C |
| mark in the world | D |
| Secretly mocking at his own insanity | B |
| He labors the same he knows that no dead man's lip was ever | E |
| curled in self scorn | F |
| And immortality is for the dead | G |
| Jesus and Caesar out of the bricks of man's weakness Washington | H |
| out of the brittle | I |
| Bones of man's strength built their memorials | J |
| This nameless chief of a knot of forgotten tribes in the Irish darkness | K |
| used faithfuller | E |
| Simpler materials to diadem a hilltop | L |
| That sees the long loughs and the Mourne Mountains with a ring | M |
| of enormous embankment and to build | N |
| In the center that great toad of a dolmen | H |
| Piled up of ponderous basalt that sheds the centuries like raindrops | O |
| He drove the labor | E |
| And has earmarked already some four millenniums | P |
| His very presence is here thick bodied and brutish a brutal and | Q |
| senseless will power | E |
| Immortality While Homer and Shakespeare are names | R |
| Not of men but verses and the elder has not lived nor the | S |
| younger will not such treadings of time | T |
| Conclude that secular like Christian immortality's | R |
| Too cheap a bargain the name the work or the soul glass beads | R |
| are the trade for savages | R |
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