Contrast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG CHIJKLIMN OPQRBST U| The world has many seas Mediterranean Atlantic but | A |
| here is the shore of the one ocean | B |
| And here the heavy future hangs like a cloud the | C |
| enormous scene the enormous games preparing | D |
| Weigh on the water and strain the rock the stage is | E |
| here the play is conceived the players are | F |
| not found | G |
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| I saw on the Sierras up the Kaweah valley above the | C |
| Moro rock the mountain redwoods | H |
| Like red towers on the slopes of snow about their | I |
| bases grew a bushery of Christmas green | J |
| Firs and pines to be monuments for pilgrimage | K |
| In Europe I remembered the Swiss forests the dark | L |
| robes of Pilatus no trunk like these there | I |
| But these are underwood they are only a shrubbery | M |
| about the boles of the trees | N |
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| Our people are clever and masterful | O |
| They have powers in the mass they accomplish marvels | P |
| It is possible Time will make them before it | Q |
| annuls them but at present | R |
| There is not one memorable person there is not one | B |
| mind to stand with the trees one life with | S |
| the mountains | T |
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| Submitted by Holt | U |
Robinson Jeffers
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