Shine, Perishing Republic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAB GHDAAIJDKBLF| While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity heavily thickening | A |
| to empire | B |
| And protest only a bubble in the molten mass pops and sighs out and the | C |
| mass hardens | D |
| I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit the fruit rots | E |
| to make earth | F |
| Out of the mother and through the spring exultances ripeness and deca | A |
| dence and home to the mother | B |
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| You making haste haste on decay not blameworthy life is good be it stub | G |
| bornly long or suddenly | H |
| A mortal splendor meteors are not needed less than mountains | D |
| shine perishing republic | A |
| But for my children I would have them keep their distance from the thick | A |
| ening center corruption | I |
| Never has been compulsory when the cities lie at the monster's feet there | J |
| are left the mountains | D |
| And boys be in nothing so moderate as in love of man a clever servant | K |
| insufferable master | B |
| There is the trap that catches noblest spirits that caught they say | L |
| God when he walked on earth | F |
Robinson Jeffers
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