Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFAGBAGBGGHGHGG IBJG| The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks hunting | A |
| on the headland | B |
| Hovering and darting their heads northwestward | B |
| Prick like silver arrows shot through a curtain the noise of the | C |
| ocean | D |
| Trampling its granite their red backs gleam | E |
| Under my window around the stone corners nothing gracefuller | F |
| nothing | A |
| Nimbler in the wind Westward the wave gleaners | G |
| The old gray sea going gulls are gathered together the northwest | B |
| wind wakening | A |
| Their wings to the wild spirals of the wind dance | G |
| Fresh as the air salt as the foam play birds in the bright wind | B |
| fly falcons | G |
| Forgetting the oak and the pinewood come gulls | G |
| From the Carmel sands and the sands at the river mouth from | H |
| Lobos and out of the limitless | G |
| Power of the mass of the sea for a poem | H |
| Needs multitude multitudes of thoughts all fierce all flesh eaters | G |
| musically clamorous | G |
| Bright hawks that hover and dart headlong and ungainly | I |
| Gray hungers fledged with desire of transgression salt slimed | B |
| beaks from the sharp | J |
| Rock shores of the world and the secret waters | G |
Robinson Jeffers
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