No Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKI ILIM INOP| Friendship when a friend meant a helping sword | A |
| Faithfulness when power and life were its fruits hatred when the hated | B |
| Held steel at your throat or had killed your children were more than metaphors | C |
| Life and the world were as bright as knives | D |
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| But now if I should recall my ruins | E |
| From the grass roots and build my body again in the heavy grave | F |
| Twist myself naked up through the earth like a strong white worm | G |
| Tip the great stone gulp the white air | H |
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| And live once more after long ages | I |
| In the change of the world I should find the old human affections hollowed | J |
| Should I need a friend No one will really stab me from behind | K |
| The people in the land of the living walk weaponless | I |
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| Should I hate an enemy The evil doers | I |
| Are pitiable now Or to whom be faithful Of whom seek faith | L |
| Who has eaten of the victor's feast and shared the fugitive silence | I |
| Of beaten men on the mountain suffer | M |
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| Resurrection to join this midge dance | I |
| Of gutted and multiplied echoes of life in the latter sun | N |
| Dead man be quiet A fool of a merchant who'd sell good earth | O |
| And grass again to make modern flesh | P |
Robinson Jeffers
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