New Mexican Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFG HDID JIKL MNOD HPID| I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos | A |
| pueblo The old men squat in a ring | B |
| And make the song the young women with fat bare arms and a | C |
| few shame faced young men shuffle the dance | D |
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| The lean muscled young men are naked to the narrow loins | D |
| their breasts and backs daubed with white clay | E |
| Two eagle feathers plume the black heads They dance with | F |
| reluctance they are growing civilized the old men persuade them | G |
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| Only the drum is confident it thinks the world has not changed | H |
| the beating heart the simplest of rhythms | D |
| It thinks the world has not changed at all it is only a dreamer | I |
| a brainless heart the drum has no eyes | D |
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| These tourists have eyes the hundred watching the dance white | J |
| Americans hungrily too with reverence not laughter | I |
| Pilgrims from civilization anxiously seeking beauty religion | K |
| poetry pilgrims from the vacuum | L |
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| People from cities anxious to be human again Poor show how | M |
| they suck you empty The Indians are emptied | N |
| And certainly there was never religion enough nor beauty nor | O |
| poetry here to fill Americans | D |
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| Only the drum is confident it thinks the world has not changed | H |
| Apparently only myself and the strong | P |
| Tribal drum and the rockhead of Taos mountain remember | I |
| that civilization is a transient sickness | D |
Robinson Jeffers
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