Bixby's Landing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIJKLJMNJDOP QKRSTUSVWWW S| They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down | A |
| here in an iron car | B |
| On a long cable here the ships warped in | C |
| And took their loads from the engine the water | D |
| is deep to the cliff The car | B |
| Hangs half way over in the gape of the gorge | E |
| Stationed like a north star above the peaks of | F |
| the redwoods iron perch | G |
| For the little red hawks when they cease from | H |
| hovering | I |
| When they've struck prey the spider's fling of a | J |
| cable rust glued to the pulleys | K |
| The laborers are gone but what a good multitude | L |
| Is here in return the rich lichened rock the | J |
| rose tipped stone crop the constant | M |
| Ocean's voices the cloud lighted space | N |
| The kilns are cold on the hill but here in the | J |
| rust of the broken boiler | D |
| Quick lizards lighten and a rattle snake flows | O |
| Down the cracked masonry over the crumbled | P |
| fire brick In the rotting timbers | Q |
| And roofless platforms all the free companies | K |
| Of windy grasses have root and make seed wild | R |
| buckwheat blooms in the fat | S |
| Weather slacked lime from the bursted barrels | T |
| Two duckhawks darting in the sky of their cliff hung | U |
| nest are the voice of the headland | S |
| Wine hearted solitude our mother the wilderness | V |
| Men's failures are often as beautiful as men's | W |
| triumphs but your returnings | W |
| Are even more precious than your first presence | W |
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| Submitted by Holt | S |
Robinson Jeffers
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