So Many Blood-lakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH EIEJ KLKM| We have now won two world wars neither of which concerned us we were | A |
| slipped in We have levelled the powers | B |
| Of Europe that were the powers of the world into rubble and | C |
| dependence We have won two wars and a third is comming | D |
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| This one will not be so easy We were at ease while the powers of the | E |
| world were split into factions we've changed that | F |
| We have enjoyed fine dreams we have dreamed of unifying the world we | G |
| are unifying it against us | H |
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| Two wars and they breed a third Now gaurd the beaches watch the | E |
| north trust not the dawns Probe every cloud | I |
| Build power Fortress America may yet for a long time stand between the | E |
| east and the west like Byzantium | J |
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| As for me laugh at me I agree with you It is a foolish business to | K |
| see the future and screech at it | L |
| One should watch and not speak And patriotism has run the world through | K |
| so many blood lakes and we always fall in | M |
Robinson Jeffers
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