Hurt Hawks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEF GHI JKL MNO KKK A PQER HSTU VWXE| I | A |
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| The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder | B |
| The wing trails like a banner in defeat | C |
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| No more to use the sky forever but live with famine | D |
| And pain a few days cat nor coyote | E |
| Will shorten the week of waiting for death there is game without talons | F |
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| He stands under the oak bush and waits | G |
| The lame feet of salvation at night he remembers freedom | H |
| And flies in a dream the dawns ruin it | I |
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| He is strong and pain is worse to the strong incapacity is worse | J |
| The curs of the day come and torment him | K |
| At distance no one but death the redeemer will humble that head | L |
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| The intrepid readiness the terrible eyes | M |
| The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those | N |
| That ask mercy not often to the arrogant | O |
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| You do not know him you communal people or you have forgotten him | K |
| Intemperate and savage the hawk remembers him | K |
| Beautiful and wild the hawks and men that are dying remember him | K |
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| II | A |
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| I'd sooner except the penalties kill a man than a hawk | P |
| but the great redtail | Q |
| Had nothing left but unable misery | E |
| From the bone too shattered for mending the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved | R |
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| We had fed him six weeks I gave him freedom | H |
| He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening asking for death | S |
| Not like a beggar still eyed with the old | T |
| Implacable arrogance | U |
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| I gave him the lead gift in the twilight | V |
| What fell was relaxed Owl downy soft feminine feathers but what | W |
| Soared the fierce rush the night herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising | X |
| Before it was quite unsheathed from reality | E |
Robinson Jeffers
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