The Cycle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDGFLMCLAN DGOCLFPLLQ| The clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants | A |
| the great indolent planes | B |
| Of autumn pelicans nine or a dozen strung shorelong | C |
| But chiefly the gulls the cloud caligraphers of windy spirals | D |
| before a storm | E |
| Cruise north and south over the sea rocks and over | F |
| That bluish enormous opal very lately these alone these and the | G |
| clouds | H |
| And westering lights of heaven crossed it but then | I |
| A hull with standing canvas crept about Point Lobos now | J |
| all day long the steamers | K |
| Smudge the opal's rim often a seaplane troubles | D |
| The sea wind with its throbbing heart These will increase the | G |
| others diminish and later | F |
| These will diminish our Pacific has pastured | L |
| The Mediterranean torch and passed it west across the fountains | M |
| of the morning | C |
| And the following desolation that feeds on Crete | L |
| Feed here the clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants | A |
| the great sails | N |
| Of autumn pelicans the gray sea going gulls | D |
| Alone will streak the enormous opal the earth have peace like the | G |
| broad water our blood's | O |
| Unrest have doubled to Asia and be peopling | C |
| Europe again or dropping colonies at the morning star what | L |
| moody traveler | F |
| Wanders back here watches the sea fowl circle | P |
| The old sea granite and cemented granite with one regard and | L |
| greets my ghost | L |
| One temper with the granite bulking about here | Q |
Robinson Jeffers
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