Second-best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBBGHIBJKKLM| A Celtic spearman forcing the cromlech builder's brown | A |
| daughter | B |
| A blond Saxon a slayer of Britons | C |
| Building his farm outside the village he'd burned a Norse | D |
| Voyager wielder of oars and a sword | E |
| Thridding the rocks at the fjord sea end hungry as a hawk | F |
| A hungry Gaelic chiefling in Ulster | B |
| Whose blood with the Norseman's rotted in the rain on a heather | B |
| hill | G |
| These by the world's time were very recent | H |
| Forefathers of yours And you are a maker of verses The pallid | I |
| Pursuit of the world's beauty on paper | B |
| Unless a tall angel comes to require it is a pitiful pastime | J |
| If burnished new from God's eyes an angel | K |
| And the ardors of the simple blood showing clearly a little | K |
| ridiculous | L |
| In this changed world write and be quiet | M |
Robinson Jeffers
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