The Blood Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIJKK LLMMNNOOPOQQRR| GAMARRA is a dainty steed | A |
| Strong black and of a noble breed | A |
| Full of fire and full of bone | B |
| With all his line of fathers known | B |
| Fine his nose his nostrils thin | C |
| But blown abroad by the pride within | C |
| His mane is like a river flowing | D |
| And his eyes like embers glowing | D |
| In the darkness of the night | E |
| And his pace as swift as light | E |
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| Look how round his straining throat | F |
| Grace and shifting beauty float | F |
| Sinewy strength is on his reins | G |
| And the red blood gallops through his veins | G |
| Richer redder never ran | H |
| Through the boasting heart of man | H |
| He can trace his lineage higher | I |
| Than the Bourbon dare aspire | J |
| Douglas Guzman or the Guelph | K |
| Or O Brien s blood itself | K |
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| He who hath no peer was born | L |
| Here upon a red March morn | L |
| But his famous fathers dead | M |
| Were Arabs all and Arab bred | M |
| And the last of that great line | N |
| Trod like one of a race divine | N |
| And yet he was but friend to one | O |
| Who fed him at the set of sun | O |
| By some lone fountain fringed with green | P |
| With him a roving Bedouin | O |
| He liv d none else would he obey | Q |
| Through all the hot Arabian day | Q |
| And died untam d upon the sands | R |
| Where Balkh amidst the desert stands | R |
Barry Cornwall
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