The Silent Shepherds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHFIJKJLMMNOPJ CQRSTUMIV WCXYRZUIPA2IYB2C2 D2| What's the best life for a man | A |
| Never to have been born sings the choros and the next best | B |
| Is to die young I saw the Sybil at Cumae | C |
| Hung in her cage over the public street | D |
| What do you want Sybil I want to die | E |
| Apothanein Thelo Apothanein Thelo Apothanein Thelo | F |
| You have got your wish But I meant life not death | G |
| What's the best life for a man To ride in the wind To ride | H |
| horses and herd cattle | F |
| In solitary places above the ocean on the beautiful mountain | I |
| and come home hungry in the evening | J |
| And eat and sleep He will live in the wild wind and quick rain | K |
| he will not ruin his eyes with reading | J |
| Nor think too much | L |
| However we must have philosophers | M |
| I will have shepherds for my philosophers | M |
| Tall dreary men lying on the hills all night | N |
| Watching the stars let their dogs watch the sheep And I'll have | O |
| lunatics | P |
| For my poets strolling from farm to farm wild liars distorting | J |
| The country news into supernaturalism | C |
| For all men to such minds are devils or gods and that increases | Q |
| Man's dignity man's importance necessary lies | R |
| Best told by fools | S |
| I will have no lawyers nor constables | T |
| Each man guard his own goods there will be manslaughter | U |
| But no more wars no more mass sacrifice Nor I'll have no doctors | M |
| Except old women gathering herbs on the mountain | I |
| Let each have her sack of opium to ease the death pains | V |
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| That would be a good world free and out doors | W |
| But the vast hungry spirit of the time | C |
| Cries to his chosen that there is nothing good | X |
| Except discovery experiment and experience and discovery To look | Y |
| truth in the eyes | R |
| To strip truth naked let our dogs do our living for us | Z |
| But man discover | U |
| It is a fine ambition | I |
| But the wrong tools Science and mathematics | P |
| Run parallel to reality they symbolize it they squint at it | A2 |
| They never touch it consider what an explosion | I |
| Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky | Y |
| the world | B2 |
| If any mind for a moment touch truth | C2 |
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| Submitted by Holt | D2 |
Robinson Jeffers
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