The Black Charger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEA FFGG HHEEI JJ KKAALLMM AAEENNDO| There's a terrible steed that rests not night nor day | A |
| But onward and onward for ever away | A |
| Through hamlet through village through country through town | B |
| Is heard the dread thud of his hoofs beating down | B |
| Is seen the fierce eye is felt the hot breath | C |
| And before it behind it spreads ruin and death | C |
| By castle by cottage by hut and by hall | D |
| Still faster and fiercer he passes them all | D |
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| He breathes on the youth with the face of the morn | E |
| He leaves him a mark for the finger of scorn | E |
| He cries 'Mount and ride I will bear you away | A |
| To the fair fields of pleasure Come mount me I say ' | - |
| And alas for the youth he is borne like the wind | F |
| And he leaveth his manhood his virtue behind | F |
| And faster still faster he speeds down the track | G |
| Where many shall follow and few shall come back | G |
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| He breathes on the heart that is stricken with grief | H |
| 'Come mount me and fly to the plains of relief | H |
| I will bear you away to the fair fields elysian | E |
| Where your sorrows shall seem but a long vanished vision | E |
| With the future before you forgetting the past | I |
| You shall revel in pleasure rejoicing at last ' | - |
| Ah whoso shall mount shall ride to his doom | J |
| Shall be sunk in the marshes of terror and gloom | J |
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| He breathes on the king and he breathes on the slave | K |
| On the young and the old from the crib to the grave | K |
| On masterly minds and they wither away | A |
| As the flower droops and dies 'neath a torrid sun's ray | A |
| On beautiful souls that are pure as the light | L |
| And they shrivel polluted with mildew and blight | L |
| The master the servant the high and the low | M |
| He bears them all down to the regions of woe | M |
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| Ho ho temperance clan rest ye not night nor day | A |
| Watch watch for the steed starve him down block his way | A |
| Throw him into the dust seize his long flowing mane | E |
| Bind his terrible limbs till he quivers in pain | E |
| Stab him through to the heart beat him down till he lies | N |
| Stark and stiff on the earth beat him down till he dies | N |
| Till never by castle by cottage by hall | D |
| Shall again pass the black hearted steed Alcohol | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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