The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGFHFIFJKFLMN| Then what is the answer Not to be deluded by dreams | A |
| To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence | B |
| and their tyrants come many times before | C |
| When open violence appears to avoid it with honor or choose | D |
| the least ugly faction these evils are essential | E |
| To keep one's own integrity be merciful and uncorrupted | F |
| and not wish for evil and not be duped | F |
| By dreams of universal justice or happiness These dreams will | G |
| not be fulfilled | F |
| To know this and know that however ugly the parts appear | H |
| the whole remains beautiful A severed hand | F |
| Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars | I |
| and his history for contemplation or in fact | F |
| Often appears atrociously ugly Integrity is wholeness | J |
| the greatest beauty is | K |
| Organic wholeness the wholeness of life and things the divine beauty | F |
| of the universe Love that not man | L |
| Apart from that or else you will share man's pitiful confusions | M |
| or drown in despair when his days darken | N |
Robinson Jeffers
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