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The Old Huntsman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGHIHI HJKJHAHA LMLMHKHK BEBMKNKN LOAOLJLJ HKHKLPLP

There's a keen and grim old huntsmanA
On a horse as white as snowB
Sometimes he is very swiftC
And sometimes he is slowB
But he never is at faultD
For he always hunts at viewE
And he rides without a haltD
After youE
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The huntsman's name is DeathF
His horse's name is TimeG
He is coming he is comingH
As I sit and write this rhymeG
He is coming he is comingH
As you read the rhyme I writeI
You can hear the hoofs' low drummingH
Day and nightI
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You can hear the distant drummingH
As the clock goes tick a tackJ
And the chiming of the hoursK
Is the music of his packJ
You may hardly note their growlingH
Underneath the noonday sunA
But at night you hear them howlingH
As they runA
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And they never check or falterL
For they never miss their killM
Seasons change and systems alterL
But the hunt is running stillM
Hark the evening chime is playingH
O'er the long grey town it pealsK
Don't you hear the death hound bayingH
At your heelsK
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Where is there an earth or burrowB
Where a cover left for youE
A year a week perhaps to morrowB
Brings the Huntsman's death hallooM
Day by day he gains upon usK
And the most that we can claimN
Is that when the hounds are on usK
We die gameN
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And somewhere dwells the MasterL
By whom it was decreedO
He sent the savage huntsmanA
He bred the snow white steedO
These hounds which run for everL
He set them on your trackJ
He hears you scream but neverL
Calls them backJ
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He does not heed our suingH
We never see his faceK
He hunts to our undoingH
We thank him for the chaseK
We thank him and we flatterL
We hope because we mustP
But have we cause No matterL
Let us trustP

Arthur Conan Doyle



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