Decaying Lambskins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFCCGHIJIKCCLMN CC COCPCCMQRC| After all we also stand on a height Our blood and our culture | A |
| have passed the flood marks of any world | B |
| Up to this time Our engineers have nothing to learn from Rome's | C |
| Egypt's China's and could teach them more | D |
| Than ever their myth makers imagined Our science however | A |
| confused personal and fabulous can hardly | E |
| Lean low enough sun blinded eagle to laugh at the strange | F |
| astronomies of Babylon or at Lucretius | C |
| His childish dreams of origins or Plato's | C |
| Lunatic swan While as for our means and mastery of warfare at | G |
| sea on land in the air | H |
| So boastful | I |
| Because we are not proud but wearily ashamed of this peak of | J |
| time What is noble in us to kindle | I |
| The imagination of a future age We shall seem a race of cheap | K |
| Fausts vulgar magicians | C |
| What men have we to show them but inventions and appliances | C |
| Not men but populations mass men not life | L |
| But amusements not health but medicines And the odor what | M |
| is that odor Decaying lambskins the Christian | N |
| Ideals that for protection and warmth our naked ancestors | C |
| but naturally after nineteen centuries | C |
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| O Mort vieux capitaine est il temps nous levons l ancre It is perhaps | C |
| Time almost time to let our supreme inventions begin to work | O |
| The exact intelligent guns | C |
| Can almost wheel themselves into action of their own accord and | P |
| almost calculate their own trajectories | C |
| The clever battleships know their objectives the huge bombing planes | C |
| and meteor pursuit planes are all poised for what | M |
| Vanity This also is vanity horrible too but a vain dream | Q |
| Our civilization the worst it can do cannot yet destroy itself | R |
| but only deep wounded drag on for centuries | C |
Robinson Jeffers
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