Subjected Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEFGHH IJKLCCCCMDDNKCHCIOPQ R| Walking in the flat Oxfordshire fields | A |
| Where the eye can find no rock to rest on but little flints | B |
| Speckle the soil and the million berried hedges | C |
| Tingle with birds at evening I saw the sombre | D |
| November day redden and go down a flight of lapwings | C |
| Whirled in the hollow of the field and half tame pheasants | C |
| Cried from the trees I remembered impatiently | E |
| How the long bronze mountain of my own coast | F |
| Where color is no account and pathos ridiculous the sculpture is all | G |
| Breaks the arrows of the setting sun | H |
| Over the enormous mounded eyeball of ocean | H |
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| The soft alien twilight | I |
| Worn and weak with too much humanity hooded my mind | J |
| Poor flourishing earth meek smiling slave | K |
| If sometime the swamps return and the heavy forest black beech | L |
| and oak roots | C |
| Break up the paving of London streets | C |
| And only as long before on the lifted ridgeways | C |
| Few people shivering by little fires | C |
| Watch the night of the forest cover the land | M |
| And shiver to hear the wild dogs howling where the cities were | D |
| Would you be glad to be free I think you will never | D |
| Be glad again so kneaded with human flesh so humbled and changed | N |
| Here all's down hill and passively goes to the grave | K |
| Asks only a pinch of pleasure between the darknesses | C |
| Contented to think that everything has been done | H |
| That's in the scope of the race so should I also perhaps | C |
| Dream under the empty angel of this twilight | I |
| But the great memory of that unhumanized world | O |
| With all its wave of good and evil to climb yet | P |
| Its exorbitant power to match its heartless passion to equal | Q |
| And all its music to make beats on the grave mound | R |
Robinson Jeffers
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