Still The Mind Smiles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIAJKLMNOPQ| Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions | A |
| Knowing all the while that civilization and the other evils | B |
| That make humanity ridiculous remain | C |
| Beautiful in the whole fabric excesses that balance each other | D |
| Like the paired wings of a flying bird | E |
| Misery and riches civilization and squalid savagery | F |
| Mass war and the odor of unmanly peace | G |
| Tragic flourishes above and below the normal of life | H |
| In order to value this fretful time | I |
| It is necessary to remember our norm the unaltered passions | A |
| The same colored wings of imagination | J |
| That the crowd clips in lonely places new grown the unchanged | K |
| Lives of herdsmen and mountain farms | L |
| Where men are few and few tools a few weapons and their | M |
| dawns are beautiful | N |
| From here for normal one sees both ways | O |
| And listens to the splendor of God the exact poet the sonorous | P |
| Antistrophe of desolation to the strophe multitude | Q |
Robinson Jeffers
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