The Cruel Falcon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEAGBBCHI| Contemplation would make a good life keep it strict only | A |
| The eyes of a desert skull drinking the sun | B |
| Too intense for flesh lonely | A |
| Exultations of white bone | C |
| Pure action would make a good life let it be sharp | D |
| Set between the throat and the knife | E |
| A man who knows death by heart | F |
| Is the man for that life | E |
| In pleasant peace and security | A |
| How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die | G |
| He shall look up above the stalled oxen | B |
| Envying the cruel falcon | B |
| And dig under the straw for a stone | C |
| To bruise himself on | H |
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