Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers The Sea Shell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ACDA EFGE EHI EJK E LMMN| Science that simple saint cannot be bothered | A |
| Figuring what anything is for | B |
| Enough for her devotions that things are | C |
| And can be contemplated soon as gathered | A |
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| She knows how every living thing was fathered | A |
| She calculates the climate of each star | C |
| She counts the fish at sea but cannot care | D |
| Why any one of them exists fish fire or feathered | A |
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| Why should she Her religion is to tell | E |
| By rote her rosary of perfect answers | F |
| Metaphysics she can leave to man | G |
| She never wakes at night in heaven or hell | E |
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| Staring at darkness In her holy cell | E |
| There is no darkness ever the pure candle | H |
| Burns the beads drop briskly from her hand | I |
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| Who dares to offer Her the curled sea shell | E |
| She will not touch it knows the world she sees | J |
| Is all the world there is Her faith is perfect | K |
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| And still he offers the sea shell | E |
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| What surf | L |
| Of what far sea upon what unknown ground | M |
| Troubles forever with that asking sound | M |
| What surge is this whose question never ceases | N |
Archibald Macleish
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