The Giant In Glee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK BBCC BBLLBB MNOO PPQQ CCRR| Ho warriors I was reared in the land of the Gauls | A |
| O'er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls | A |
| Of the snow at the Pole where a babe I was bathed | B |
| Ere in bear and in walrus skin I was enswathed | B |
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| Then my father was strong whom the years lowly bow | C |
| A bison could wallow in the grooves of his brow | C |
| He is weak very old he can scarcely uptear | C |
| A young pine tree for staff since his legs cease to bear | C |
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| But here's to replace him I can toy with his axe | D |
| As I sit on the hill my feet swing in the flax | D |
| And my knee caps the boulders and troubles the trees | E |
| How they shiver yea quake if I happen to sneeze | E |
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| I was still but a springald when cleaving the Alps | F |
| I brushed snowy periwigs off granitic scalps | F |
| And my head o'er the pinnacles stopped the fleet clouds | G |
| Where I captured the eagles and caged them by crowds | G |
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| There were tempests I blew them back into their source | H |
| And put out their lightnings More than once in a course | H |
| Through the ocean I went wading after the whale | I |
| And stirred up the bottom as did never a gale | I |
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| Fond of rambling I hunted the shark 'long the beach | J |
| And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach | J |
| And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb | K |
| Like the lynx and the wolf perished harmless and dumb | K |
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| But these pleasures of childhood have lost all their zest | B |
| It is warfare and carnage that now I love best | B |
| The sounds that I wish to awaken and hear | C |
| Are the cheers raised by courage the shrieks due to fear | C |
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| When the riot of flames ruin smoke steel and blood | B |
| Announces an army rolls along as a flood | B |
| Which I follow to harry the clamorous ranks | L |
| Sharp goading the laggards and pressing the flanks | L |
| Till a thresher 'mid ripest of corn up I stand | B |
| With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand | B |
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| Rise the groans rise the screams on my feet fall vain tears | M |
| As the roar of my laughter redoubles their fears | N |
| I am naked At armor of steel I should joke | O |
| True I'm helmed a brass pot you could draw with ten yoke | O |
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| I look for no ladder to invade the king's hall | P |
| I stride o'er the ramparts and down the walls fall | P |
| Till choked are the ditches with the stones dead and quick | Q |
| Whilst the flagstaff I use 'midst my teeth as a pick | Q |
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| Oh when cometh my turn to succumb like my prey | C |
| May brave men my body snatch away from th' array | C |
| Of the crows may they heap on the rocks till they loom | R |
| Like a mountain befitting a colossus' tomb | R |
Victor Marie Hugo
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