Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHIJDDJKLMJND| August and laurelled have been content to speak for an age | A |
| and the ages that follow | B |
| Respect them for that pious fidelity | C |
| But you have disfeatured time for timelessness | D |
| They had heroes for companions beautiful youths to dream of | E |
| rose marble fingered | F |
| Women shed light down the great lines | D |
| But you have invoked the slime in the skull | G |
| The lymph in the vessels They have shown men Gods like | H |
| racial dreams the woman's desire | I |
| The man's fear the hawk faced prophet's but nothing | J |
| Human seems happy at the feet of yours | D |
| Therefore though not forgotten not loved in gray old years | D |
| in the evening leaning | J |
| Over the gray stones of the tower top | K |
| You shall be called heartless and blind | L |
| And watch new time answer old thought not a face strange | M |
| nor a pain astonishing | J |
| But you living be laired in the rock | N |
| That sheds pleasure and pain like hailstones | D |
Robinson Jeffers
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