The Great Explosion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIJBKLMNOP DBQRASTJUVQODWXXRYZQ A2B2| The universe expands and contracts like a great heart | A |
| It is expanding the farthest nebulae | B |
| Rush with the speed of light into empty space | C |
| It will contract the immense navies of stars and galaxies | D |
| dust clouds and nebulae | B |
| Are recalled home they crush against each other in one | E |
| harbor they stick in one lump | F |
| And then explode it nothing can hold them down there is no | G |
| way to express that explosion all that exists | H |
| Roars into flame the tortured fragments rush away from each | I |
| other into all the sky new universes | J |
| Jewel the black breast of night and far off the outer nebulae | B |
| like charging spearmen again | K |
| Invade emptiness | L |
| No wonder we are so fascinated with | M |
| fireworks | N |
| And our huge bombs it is a kind of homesickness perhaps for | O |
| the howling fireblast that we were born from | P |
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| But the whole sum of the energies | D |
| That made and contain the giant atom survives It will | B |
| gather again and pile up the power and the glory | Q |
| And no doubt it will burst again diastole and systole the | R |
| whole universe beats like a heart | A |
| Peace in our time was never one of God's promises but back | S |
| and forth live and die burn and be damned | T |
| The great heart beating pumping into our arteries His | J |
| terrible life | U |
| He is beautiful beyond belief | V |
| And we God's apes or tragic children share in the beauty | Q |
| We see it above our torment that's what life's for | O |
| He is no God of love no justice of a little city like Dante's | D |
| Florence no anthropoid God | W |
| Making commandments this is the God who does not care | X |
| and will never cease Look at the seas there | X |
| Flashing against this rock in the darkness look at the | R |
| tide stream stars and the fall of nations and dawn | Y |
| Wandering with wet white feet down the Caramel Valley to | Z |
| meet the sea These are real and we see their beauty | Q |
| The great explosion is probably only a metaphor I know not | A2 |
| of faceless violence the root of all things | B2 |
Robinson Jeffers
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