The Piltdown Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGAGHHIG JF FDKALLKDK MNKNDKOKAKKK| What was his life back yonder | A |
| In the dusk where time began | B |
| This beast uncouth with the jaw of an ape | C |
| And the eye and brain of a man | B |
| Work and the wooing of woman | D |
| Fight and the lust of fight | E |
| Play and the blind beginnings | F |
| Of an Art that groped for light | E |
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| In the wonder of redder mornings | F |
| By the beauty of brighter seas | G |
| Did he stand the world's first thinker | A |
| Scorning his clan's decrees | G |
| Seeking with baffled eyes | H |
| In the dumb inscrutable skies | H |
| A name for the greater glory | I |
| That only the dreamer sees | G |
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| One day when the afterglows | J |
| Like quick and sentient things | F |
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| With a rush of their vast wild wings | F |
| Rose out of the shaken ocean | D |
| As great birds rise from the sod | K |
| Did the shock of their sudden splendor | A |
| Stir him and startle and thrill him | L |
| Grip him and shake him and fill him | L |
| With a sense as of heights untrod | K |
| Did he tremble with hope and vision | D |
| And grasp at a hint of God | K |
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| London stands where the mammoth | M |
| Caked shag flanks with slime | N |
| And what are our lives that inherit | K |
| The treasures of all time | N |
| Work and the wooing of woman | D |
| Fight and the lust of fight | K |
| A little play and too much toil | O |
| With an Art that gropes for light | K |
| And now and then a dreamer | A |
| Rapt from his lonely sod | K |
| Looks up and is thrilled and startled | K |
| With a fleeting sense of God | K |
Don Marquis
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