The Great Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDCFGHI JDJKLCMNOPJQRFFARHSC DTFUFL| A flight of six heavy motored bombing planes | A |
| Went over the beautiful inhuman ridges a straight course northward | B |
| the incident stuck itself in my memory | C |
| More than a flight of band tail pigeons might have done | D |
| Because those wings of man and potential war seemed really intrusive | E |
| above the remote canyon | D |
| They changed it I cannot say they profaned it but the memory | C |
| All day remained like a false note in familiar music and suggested | F |
| no doubt | G |
| The counter fantasy that came to my eyes in the evening on the | H |
| ocean cliff | I |
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| I came from the canyon twilight | J |
| Exactly at sunset to the open shore and felt like a sudden extension | D |
| of consciousness the wild free light | J |
| And biting north wind The cloud sky had lifted from the western | K |
| horizon and left a long yellow panel | L |
| Between the slate edge ocean and the eyelid cloud the smoky | C |
| ball of the sun rolled on the sea line | M |
| And formless bits of vapor flew across but when the sun was | N |
| down | O |
| The panel of clear sky brightened the rags of moving cloud took | P |
| memorable shapes dark on the light | J |
| Whether I was dreaming or not they became spears and war axes | Q |
| horses and sabres gaunt battle elephants | R |
| With towered backs they became catapults and siege guns high tilted | F |
| howitzers long tractors armored and turreted | F |
| They became battleships and destroyers and great fleets of warplanes | A |
| all the proud instruments | R |
| Of man imposing his will upon weaker men they were like a | H |
| Roman triumph but themselves the captives | S |
| A triumph in reverse all the tools of victory | C |
| Whiffed away on the north wind into a cloud like a conflagration | D |
| swept from the earth no man | T |
| From this time on to exploit nor subdue any other man I thought | F |
| 'What a pity our kindest dreams | U |
| Are complete liars ' and turned from the glowing west toward | F |
| the cold twilight 'To be truth bound the neutral | L |
| Detested by all the dreaming factions is my errand here ' | - |
Robinson Jeffers
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