In The Dials Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCCDDC DCDCD DCDC DCDDC| To Garryowen upon an organ ground | A |
| Two girls are jigging Riotously they trip | B |
| With eyes aflame quick bosoms hand on hip | B |
| As in the tumult of a witches' round | A |
| Youngsters and youngsters round them prance and bound | A |
| Two solemn babes twirl ponderously and skip | B |
| The artist's teeth gleam from his bearded lip | B |
| High from the kennel howls a tortured hound | A |
| The music reels and hurtles and the night | C |
| Is full of stinks and cries a naphtha light | C |
| Flares from a barrow battered and obtused | C |
| With vices wrinkles life and work and rags | D |
| Each with her inch of clay two loitering hags | D |
| Look on dispassionate critical something 'mused | C |
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| The gods are dead Perhaps they are Who knows | D |
| Living at least in Lempriere undeleted | C |
| The wise the fair the awful the jocose | D |
| Are one and all I like to think retreated | C |
| In some still land of lilacs and the rose | D |
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| Once high they sat and high o'er earthly shows | D |
| With sacrificial dance and song were greeted | C |
| Once long ago But now the story goes | D |
| The gods are dead | C |
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| It must be true The world a world of prose | D |
| Full crammed with facts in science swathed and sheeted | C |
| Nods in a stertorous after dinner doze | D |
| Plangent and sad in every wind that blows | D |
| Who will may hear the sorry words repeated | C |
| 'The Gods are Dead ' | - |
William Ernest Henley
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