Fire On The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIJKLM| The deer were bounding like blown leaves | A |
| Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush fire | B |
| I thought of the smaller lives that were caught | C |
| Beauty is not always lovely the fire was beautiful the terror | B |
| Of the deer was beautiful and when I returned | D |
| Down the back slopes after the fire had gone by an eagle | E |
| Was perched on the jag of a burnt pine | F |
| Insolent and gorged cloaked in the folded storms of his shoulders | G |
| He had come from far off for the good hunting | H |
| With fire for his beater to drive the game the sky was merciless | I |
| Blue and the hills merciless black | J |
| The sombre feathered great bird sleepily merciless between them | K |
| I thought painfully but the whole mind | L |
| The destruction that brings an eagle from heaven is better than mercy | M |
Robinson Jeffers
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