The Beaks Of Eagles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJBKLMNOAPQ RSTUVRWPXY| An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the | A |
| precipice footed ridges | B |
| Above Ventana Creek that jagged country which nothing but a | A |
| falling meteor will ever plow no horseman | C |
| Will ever ride there no hunter cross this ridge but the winged | D |
| ones no one will steal the eggs from this fortress | E |
| The she eagle is old her mate was shot long ago she is now mated | F |
| with a son of hers | G |
| When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same | H |
| tree in the splinters of the thunderbolt | I |
| The she eagle is older than I she was here when the fires of | J |
| eighty five raged on these ridges | B |
| She was lately fledged and dared not hunt ahead of them but ate | K |
| scorched meat The world has changed in her time | L |
| Humanity has multiplied but not here men's hopes and thoughts | M |
| and customs have changed their powers are enlarged | N |
| Their powers and their follies have become fantastic | O |
| The unstable animal never has been changed so rapidly The | A |
| motor and the plane and the great war have gone over him | P |
| And Lenin has lived and Jehovah died while the mother eagle | Q |
| Hunts her same hills crying the same beautiful and lonely cry and | R |
| is never tired dreams the same dreams | S |
| And hears at night the rock slides rattle and thunder in the throats | T |
| of these living mountains | U |
| It is good for man | V |
| To try all changes progress and corruption powers peace and | R |
| anguish not to go down the dinosaur's way | W |
| Until all his capacities have been explored and it is good for him | P |
| To know that his needs and nature are no more changed in fact | X |
| in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles | Y |
Robinson Jeffers
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