The Summit Redwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJAKLFGMNNONJPQNNRS TUVWXYNZ A2| Only stand high a long enough time your lightning | A |
| will come that is what blunts the peaks of | B |
| redwoods | C |
| But this old tower of life on the hilltop has taken | D |
| it more than twice a century this knows in | E |
| every | F |
| Cell the salty and the burning taste the shudder | G |
| and the voice | H |
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| The fire from heaven it has | I |
| felt the earth's too | J |
| Roaring up hill in autumn thorned oak leaves tossing | A |
| their bright ruin to the bitter laurel leaves | K |
| and all | L |
| Its under forest has died and died and lives to be | F |
| burnt the redwood has lived Though the fire | G |
| entered | M |
| It cored the trunk while the sapwood increased The | N |
| trunk is a tower the bole of the trunk is a | N |
| black cavern | O |
| The mast of the trunk with its green boughs the | N |
| mountain stars are strained through | J |
| Is like the helmet spike on the highest head of an | P |
| army black on lit blue or hidden in cloud | Q |
| It is like the hill's finger in heaven And when the | N |
| cloud hides it though in barren summer the | N |
| boughs | R |
| Make their own rain | S |
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| Old Escobar had a cunning trick | T |
| when he stole beef He and his grandsons | U |
| Would drive the cow up here to a starlight death and | V |
| hoist the carcass into the tree's hollow | W |
| Then let them search his cabin he could smile for | X |
| pleasure to think of his meat hanging secure | Y |
| Exalted over the earth and the ocean a theft like a | N |
| star secret against the supreme sky | Z |
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| Submitted by Holt | A2 |
Robinson Jeffers
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