July Fourth By The Ocean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKHLMNOPQRC S| The continent's a tamed ox with all its mountains | A |
| Powerful and servile here is for plowland here is | B |
| for park and playground this helpless | C |
| Cataract for power it lies behind us at heel | D |
| All docile between this ocean and the other If | E |
| flood troubles the lowlands or earthquake | F |
| Cracks walls it is only a slave's blunder or the | G |
| natural | H |
| Shudder of a new made slave Therefore we happy | I |
| masters about the solstice | J |
| Light bonfires on the shore and celebrate our power | K |
| The bay's necklaced with fire the bombs make crystal | H |
| fountains in the air the rockets | L |
| Shower swan's neck over the night water I | M |
| imagined | N |
| The stars drew apart a little as if from troublesome | O |
| children coldly compassionate | P |
| But the ocean neither seemed astonished nor in awe | Q |
| If this had been the little sea that Xerxes whipped | R |
| how it would have feared us | C |
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| Submitted by Holt | S |
Robinson Jeffers
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