The Coast-road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPQRHSTUHVWVXY HZA2QB2| A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain | A |
| over Mirmas Canyon draws rein looks down | B |
| At the bridge builders men trucks the power shovels the teeming | C |
| end of the new coast road at the mountain's base | D |
| He sees the loops of the road go northward headland beyond | E |
| headland into gray mist over Eraser's Point | F |
| He shakes his fist and makes the gesture of wringing a chicken's | G |
| neck scowls and rides higher | H |
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| I too | I |
| Believe that the life of men who ride horses herders of cattle on | J |
| the mountain pasture plowers of remote | K |
| Rock narrowed farms in poverty and freedom is a good life At | L |
| the far end of those loops of road | M |
| Is what will come and destroy it a rich and vulgar and bewildered | N |
| civilization dying at the core | O |
| A world that is feverishly preparing new wars peculiarly vicious | P |
| ones and heavier tyrannies a strangely | Q |
| Missionary world road builder wind rider educator printer and | R |
| picture maker and broadcaster | H |
| So eager like an old drunken whore pathetically eager to impose | S |
| the seduction of her fled charms | T |
| On all that through ignorance or isolation might have escaped | U |
| them I hope the weathered horseman up yonder | H |
| Will die before he knows what this eager world will do to his | V |
| children More tough minded men | W |
| Can repulse an old whore or cynically accept her drunken kindnesses | V |
| for what they are worth | X |
| But the innocent and credulous are soon corrupted | Y |
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| Where is our | H |
| consolation Beautiful beyond belief | Z |
| The heights glimmer in the sliding cloud the great bronze gorge cut | A2 |
| sides of the mountain tower up invincibly | Q |
| Not the least hurt by this ribbon of road carved on their sea foot | B2 |
Robinson Jeffers
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