The Treasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIHJKJLJMNON JO| Mountains a moment's earth waves rising and hollowing the | A |
| earth too's an ephemerid the stars | B |
| Short lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their | C |
| summer they spiral | D |
| Blind up space scattered black seeds of a future nothing lives | E |
| long the whole sky's | F |
| Recurrences tick the seconds of the hours of the ages of the gulf | G |
| before birth and the gulf | G |
| After death is like dated to labor eighty years in a notch of | H |
| eternity is nothing too tiresome | I |
| Enormous repose after enormous repose before the flash of | H |
| activity | J |
| Surely you never have dreamed the incredible depths were prologue | K |
| and epilogue merely | J |
| To the surface play in the sun the instant of life what is called | L |
| life I fancy | J |
| That silence is the thing this noise a found word for it interjection | M |
| a jump of the breath at that silence | N |
| Stars burn grass grows men breathe as a man finding treasure | O |
| says 'Ah ' but the treasure's the essence | N |
| Before the man spoke it was there and after he has spoken he | J |
| gathers it inexhaustible treasure | O |
Robinson Jeffers
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