The Kelpie Riders: Part I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG FF HH II JJ KK FF LL MM NN OO PP AA QQ RR SS RR| Buried alive in calm Rochelle | A |
| Six in a row by a crystal well | A |
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| All Summer long on Bareau Fen | B |
| Slumber and sleep the Kelpie men | B |
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| By the side of each to cheer his ghost | C |
| A flagon of foam with a crumpet of frost | D |
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| Hear me friends for the years are fleet | E |
| Soon I leave the noise and the street | E |
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| For the silent uncompanioned way | F |
| Where the inn is cold and the night is gray | F |
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| But noon is warm and the world is still | G |
| Where the Kelpie riders have their will | G |
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| For never a wind dare stir or stray | F |
| Over those marshes salt and gray | F |
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| No bit of shade as big as your hand | H |
| To traverse or trammel the sleeping land | H |
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| Save where a dozen poplars fleck | I |
| The long gray grass and the well's blue beck | I |
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| Yet you mark their leaves are blanched and sear | J |
| Whispering daft at a nameless fear | J |
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| While round the hole of one is a rune | K |
| Black in the wash of the bleaching noon | K |
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| Ride for the wind is awake and away | F |
| Sleep for the harvest grain is gray | F |
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| No word more And many a mile | L |
| A ghostly bivouac rank and file | L |
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| They sleep to day on the marshes wide | M |
| Some far night they will wake and ride | M |
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| Once they were riders hot with speed | N |
| Kelpie Kelpie gallop at need | N |
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| With hills of the barren sea to roam | O |
| Housing their horses on the foam | O |
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| But earth is cool and the hush is long | P |
| Beneath the lull of the slumber song | P |
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| The crickets falter and strive to tell | A |
| To the dragon fly of the crystal well | A |
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| And love is a forgotten jest | Q |
| Where the Kelpie riders take their rest | Q |
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| And blossoming grasses hour by hour | R |
| Burn in the bud and freeze in the flower | R |
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| But never again shall their roving be | S |
| On the shifting hills of the tumbling sea | S |
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| With the salt and the rain and the glad desire | R |
| Strong as the wind and pure as fire | R |
Bliss Carman
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