The Dead Ox Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDAFGDHIJAKLMNO| GEORG IV | A |
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| Lo smoking in the stubborn plough the ox | B |
| Falls from his lip foam gushing crimson stained | C |
| And sobs his life out Sad of face the ploughman | D |
| Moves disentangling from his comrade's corpse | E |
| The lone survivor and its work half done | D |
| Abandoned in the furrow stands the plough | A |
| Not shadiest forest depths not softest lawns | F |
| May move him now not river amber pure | G |
| That volumes o'er the cragstones to the plain | D |
| Powerless the broad sides glazed the rayless eye | H |
| And low and lower sinks the ponderous neck | I |
| What thank hath he for all the toil he toiled | J |
| The heavy clodded land in man's behoof | A |
| Upturning Yet the grape of Italy | K |
| The stored up feast hath wrought no harm to him | L |
| Green leaf and taintless grass are all their fare | M |
| The clear rill or the travel freshen'd stream | N |
| Their cup nor one care mars their honest sleep | O |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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