Horses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKL MMNN OOPP| Those lumbering horses in the steady plough | A |
| On the bare field I wonder why just now | A |
| They seemed terrible so wild and strange | B |
| Like magic power on the stony grange | B |
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| Perhaps some childish hour has come again | C |
| When I watched fearful through the blackening rain | D |
| Their hooves like pistons in an ancient mill | E |
| Move up and down yet seem as standing still | E |
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| Their conquering hooves which trod the stubble down | F |
| Were ritual that turned the field to brown | F |
| And their great hulks were seraphims of gold | G |
| Or mute ecstatic monsters on the mould | G |
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| And oh the rapture when one furrow done | H |
| They marched broad breasted to the sinking sun | H |
| The light flowed off their bossy sides in flakes | I |
| The furrows rolled behind like struggling snakes | I |
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| But when at dusk with steaming nostrils home | J |
| They came they seemed gigantic in the gloam | J |
| And warm and glowing with mysterious fire | K |
| That lit their smouldering bodies in the mire | L |
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| Their eyes as brilliant and as wide as night | M |
| Gleamed with a cruel apocalyptic light | M |
| Their manes the leaping ire of the wind | N |
| Lifted with rage invisible and blind | N |
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| Ah now it fades It fades And I must pine | O |
| Again for the dread country crystalline | O |
| Where the blank field and the still standing tree | P |
| Were bright and fearful presences to me | P |
Edwin Muir
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