Birth-dues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLKMLNOP QRSTUVWXAYR Z| Joy is a trick in the air pleasure is merely | A |
| contemptible the dangled | B |
| Carrot the ass follows to market or precipice | C |
| But limitary pain the rock under the tower | D |
| and the hewn coping | E |
| That takes thunder at the head of the turret | F |
| Terrible and real Therefore a mindless dervish | G |
| carving himself | H |
| With knives will seem to have conquered the world | I |
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| The world's God is treacherous and full of | J |
| unreason a torturer but also | K |
| The only foundation and the only fountain | L |
| Who fights him eats his own flesh and perishes | K |
| of hunger who hides in the grave | M |
| To escape him is dead who enters the Indian | L |
| Recession to escape him is dead who falls in | N |
| love with the God is washed clean | O |
| Of death desired and of death dreaded | P |
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| He has joy but Joy is a trick in the air and | Q |
| pleasure but pleasure is contemptible | R |
| And peace and is based on solider than pain | S |
| He has broken boundaries a little and that will | T |
| estrange him he is monstrous but not | U |
| To the measure of the God But I having told | V |
| you | W |
| However I suppose that few in the world have | X |
| energy to hear effectively | A |
| Have paid my birth dues am quits with the | Y |
| people | R |
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| Submitted by Holt | Z |
Robinson Jeffers
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