To The Pliocene Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CCEF GHIJ KKKL KJKM KKII IIKI IANA BOIK AIBJ BBIB KKIK| Speak O man less recent Fragmentary fossil | A |
| Primal pioneer of pliocene formation | B |
| Hid in lowest drifts below the earliest stratum | C |
| Of volcanic tufa | D |
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| Older than the beasts the oldest Palaeotherium | C |
| Older than the trees the oldest Cryptogami | C |
| Older than the hills those infantile eruptions | E |
| Of earth's epidermis | F |
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| Eo Mio Plio whatsoe'er the 'cene' was | G |
| That those vacant sockets filled with awe and wonder | H |
| Whether shores Devonian or Silurian beaches | I |
| Tell us thy strange story | J |
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| Or has the professor slightly antedated | K |
| By some thousand years thy advent on this planet | K |
| Giving thee an air that's somewhat better fitted | K |
| For cold blooded creatures | L |
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| Wert thou true spectator of that mighty forest | K |
| When above thy head the stately Sigillaria | J |
| Reared its columned trunks in that remote and distant | K |
| Carboniferous epoch | M |
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| Tell us of that scene the dim and watery woodland | K |
| Songless silent hushed with never bird or insect | K |
| Veiled with spreading fronds and screened with tall club mosses | I |
| Lycopodiacea | I |
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| When beside thee walked the solemn Plesiosaurus | I |
| And around thee crept the festive Ichthyosaurus | I |
| While from time to time above thee flew and circled | K |
| Cheerful Pterodactyls | I |
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| Tell us of thy food those half marine refections | I |
| Crinoids on the shell and Brachipods au naturel | A |
| Cuttlefish to which the pieuvre of Victor Hugo | N |
| Seems a periwinkle | A |
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| Speak thou awful vestige of the earth's creation | B |
| Solitary fragment of remains organic | O |
| Tell the wondrous secret of thy past existence | I |
| Speak thou oldest primate | K |
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| Even as I gazed a thrill of the maxilla | A |
| And a lateral movement of the condyloid process | I |
| With post pliocene sounds of healthy mastication | B |
| Ground the teeth together | J |
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| And from that imperfect dental exhibition | B |
| Stained with express juices of the weed nicotian | B |
| Came these hollow accents blent with softer murmurs | I |
| Of expectoration | B |
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| Which my name is Bowers and my crust was busted | K |
| Falling down a shaft in Calaveras County | K |
| But I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces | I |
| Home to old Missouri | K |
Bret Harte (francis)
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