The Eye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDECFGHDCIDCIJKCL| The Atlantic is a stormy moat and the Mediterranean | A |
| The blue pool in the old garden | A |
| More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice | B |
| Of ships and blood and shines in the sun but here the Pacific | C |
| Our ships planes wars are perfectly irrelevant | D |
| Neither our present blood feud with the brave dwarfs | E |
| Nor any future world quarrel of westering | C |
| And eastering man the bloody migrations greed of power clash of | F |
| faiths | G |
| Is a speck of dust on the great scale pan | H |
| Here from this mountain shore headland beyond stormy headland | D |
| plunging like dolphins through the blue sea smoke | C |
| Into pale sea look west at the hill of water it is half the | I |
| planet | D |
| this dome this half globe this bulging | C |
| Eyeball of water arched over to Asia | I |
| Australia and white Antartica those are the eyelids that never | J |
| close | K |
| this is the staring unsleeping | C |
| Eye of the earth and what it watches is not our wars | L |
Robinson Jeffers
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