Original Sin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMA NOPIQ RH SHTUV| The man brained and man handed ground ape physically | A |
| The most repulsive of all hot blooded animals | B |
| Up to that time of the world they had dug a pitfall | C |
| And caught a mammoth but how could their sticks and stones | D |
| Reach the life in that hide They danced around the pit shrieking | E |
| With ape excitement flinging sharp flints in vain and the stench of their bodies | F |
| Stained the white air of dawn but presently one of them | G |
| Remembered the yellow dancer wood eating fire | H |
| That guards the cave mouth he ran and fetched him and others | I |
| Gathered sticks at the wood s edge they made a blaze | J |
| And pushed it into the pit and they fed it high around the mired sides | K |
| Of their huge prey They watched the long hairy trunk | L |
| Waver over the stifle trumpeting pain | M |
| And they were happy | A |
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| Meanwhile the intense color and nobility of sunrise | N |
| Rose and gold and amber flowed up the sky Wet rocks were shining a little wind | O |
| Stirred the leaves of the forest and the marsh flag flowers the soft valley between the low hills | P |
| Became as beautiful as the sky while in its midst hour after hour the happy hunters | I |
| Roasted their living meat slowly to death | Q |
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| These are the people | R |
| This is the human dawn As for me I would rather | H |
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| Be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man | S |
| But we are what we are and we might remember | H |
| Not to hate any person for all are vicious | T |
| And not be astonished at any evil all are deserved | U |
| And not fear death it is the only way to be cleansed | V |
Robinson Jeffers
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