He "digesteth Harde Yron" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDAA EAAAAFG HIJKLA MNMAAF AOPPQRR SATTA UVNNAWV NXAAVXX YZA2VNN| Although the aepyornis | A |
| or roc that lived in Madagascar and | B |
| the moa are extinct | C |
| the camel sparrow linked | C |
| with them in size the large sparrow | D |
| Xenophon saw walking by a stream was and is | A |
| a symbol of justice | A |
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| This bird watches his chicks with | E |
| a maternal concentration and he's | A |
| been mothering the eggs | A |
| at night six weeks his legs | A |
| their only weapon of defense | A |
| He is swifter than a horse he has a foot hard | F |
| as a hoof the leopard | G |
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| is not more suspicious How | H |
| could he prized for plumes and eggs and young | I |
| used even as a riding beast respect men | J |
| hiding actor like in ostrich skins with the right hand | K |
| making the neck move as if alive | L |
| and from a bag the left hand strewing grain that ostriches | A |
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| might be decoyed and killed Yes this is he | M |
| whose plume was anciently | N |
| the plume of justice he | M |
| whose comic duckling head on its | A |
| great neck revolves with compass needle nervousness | A |
| when he stands guard | F |
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| in S like foragings as he is | A |
| preening the down on his leaden skinned back | O |
| The egg piously shown | P |
| as Leda's very own | P |
| from which Castor and Pollux hatched | Q |
| was an ostrich egg And what could have been more fit | R |
| for the Chinese lawn it | R |
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| grazed on as a gift to an | S |
| emperor who admired strange birds than this | A |
| one who builds his mud made | T |
| nest in dust yet will wade | T |
| in lake or sea till only the head shows | A |
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| Six hundred ostrich brains served | U |
| at one banquet the ostrich plume tipped tent | V |
| and desert spear jewel | N |
| gorgeous ugly egg shell | N |
| goblets eight pairs of ostriches | A |
| in harness dramatize a meaning | W |
| always missed by the externalist | V |
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| The power of the visible | N |
| is the invisible as even where | X |
| no tree of freedom grows | A |
| so called brute courage knows | A |
| Heroism is exhausting yet | V |
| it contradicts a greed that did not wisely spare | X |
| the harmless solitaire | X |
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| or great auk in its grandeur | Y |
| unsolicitude having swallowed up | Z |
| all giant birds but an alert gargantuan | A2 |
| little winged magnificently speedy running bird | V |
| This one remaining rebel | N |
| is the sparrow camel | N |
Marianne Moore
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