Post Mortem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEFGHIJKLMNDLOD PQPLLLRISLKLTUDD| Happy people die whole they are all dissolved in a moment | A |
| they have had what they wanted | B |
| No hard gifts the unhappy | C |
| Linger a space but pain is a thing that is glad to be forgotten | D |
| but one who has given | D |
| His heart to a cause or a country | C |
| His ghost may spaniel it a while disconsolate to watch it I was | E |
| wondering how long the spirit | F |
| That sheds this verse will remain | G |
| When the nostrils are nipped when the brain rots in its vault | H |
| or bubbles in the violence of fire | I |
| To be ash in metal I was thinking | J |
| Some stalks of the wood whose roots I married to the earth of | K |
| this place will stand five centuries | L |
| I held the roots in my hand | M |
| The stems of the trees between two fingers how many remote | N |
| generations of women | D |
| Will drink joy from men's loins | L |
| And dragged from between the thighs of what mothers will | O |
| giggle at my ghost when it curses the axemen | D |
| Gray impotent voice on the sea wind | P |
| When the last trunk falls The women's abundance will have | Q |
| built roofs over all this foreland | P |
| Will have buried the rock foundations | L |
| I laid here the women's exuberance will canker and fail in its | L |
| time and like clouds the houses | L |
| Unframe the granite of the prime | R |
| Stand from the heaps come storm and wash clean the plaster | I |
| is all run to the sea and the steel | S |
| All rusted the foreland resumes | L |
| The form we loved when we saw it Though one at the end of | K |
| the age and far off from this place | L |
| Should meet my presence in a poem | T |
| The ghost would not care but be here long sunset shadow in the | U |
| seams of the granite and forgotten | D |
| The flesh a spirit for the stone | D |
Robinson Jeffers
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