The Man And His Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCDCCD EEFEEF GGGGGG GGHGGH GG| Within a Meadow on the way | A |
| A sordid Churl resolv'd to stay | A |
| And give his Horse a Bite | B |
| Purloining so his Neighbours Hay | A |
| That at the Inn he might not pay | A |
| For Forage all the Night | B |
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| With Heart's content th' unloaded Steed | C |
| Began to neigh and frisk and feed | C |
| For nothing more he car'd | D |
| Since none of all his Master's breed | C |
| E'er found such Pasture at their need | C |
| Or half so well had far'd | D |
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| When in the turning of a Hand | E |
| Out comes the Owner of the Land | E |
| And do's the Trespass eye | F |
| Which puts poor Bayard to a Stand | E |
| For now his Master do's command | E |
| Him to return and fly | F |
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| But Hunger quick'ning up his Wit | G |
| And Grass being sweeter than the Bit | G |
| He to the Clown reply'd | G |
| Shall I for you this Dinner quit | G |
| Who to my Back hard Burdens fit | G |
| And to the Death wou'd ride | G |
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| No shou'd I as a Stray be found | G |
| And seiz'd upon forbidden Ground | G |
| I'll on this Spot stand still | H |
| For tho' new Riders shou'd abound | G |
| Or did Mankind this Field surround | G |
| They cou'd but use me ill | H |
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| Urge no Man to despair lest in the Fit | G |
| He with some Counterblow thy Head may hit | G |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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