The Bloody Sire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGHC CCGGC AC| It is not bad Let them play | A |
| Let the guns bark and the bombing plane | B |
| Speak his prodigious blasphemies | C |
| It is not bad it is high time | D |
| Stark violence is still the sire of all the world s values | C |
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| What but the wolf s tooth whittled so fine | E |
| The fleet limbs of the antelope | F |
| What but fear winged the birds and hunger | G |
| Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk s head | H |
| Violence has been the sire of all the world s values | C |
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| Who would remember Helen s face | C |
| Lacking the terrible halo of spears | C |
| Who formed Christ but Herod and Caesar | G |
| The cruel and bloody victories of Caesar | G |
| Violence the bloody sire of all the world s values | C |
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| Never weep let them play | A |
| Old violence is not too old to beget new values | C |
Robinson Jeffers
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