The Fly-away Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDEFGHHDGGD AGIGJKLKHHMJJM NDKDOPQPGGRSSR DTGTUPAPHHKVVK| Oh a wonderful horse is the Fly Away Horse | A |
| Perhaps you have seen him before | B |
| Perhaps while you slept his shadow has swept | C |
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| Through the moonlight that floats on the floor | B |
| For it's only at night when the stars twinkle bright | D |
| That the Fly Away Horse with a neigh | E |
| And a pull at his rein and a toss of his mane | F |
| Is up on his heels and away | G |
| The Moon in the sky | H |
| As he gallopeth by | H |
| Cries Oh what a marvelous sight | D |
| And the Stars in dismay | G |
| Hide their faces away | G |
| In the lap of old Grandmother Night | D |
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| It is yonder out yonder the Fly Away Horse | A |
| Speedeth ever and ever away | G |
| Over meadows and lanes over mountains and plains | I |
| Over streamlets that sing at their play | G |
| And over the sea like a ghost sweepeth he | J |
| While the ships they go sailing below | K |
| And he speedeth so fast that the men at the mast | L |
| Adjudge him some portent of woe | K |
| What ho there they cry | H |
| As he flourishes by | H |
| With a whisk of his beautiful tail | M |
| And the fish in the sea | J |
| Are as scared as can be | J |
| From the nautilus up to the whale | M |
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| And the Fly Away Horse seeks those faraway lands | N |
| You little folk dream of at night | D |
| Where candy trees grow and honey brooks flow | K |
| And corn fields with popcorn are white | D |
| And the beasts in the wood are ever so good | O |
| To children who visit them there | P |
| What glory astride of a lion to ride | Q |
| Or to wrestle around with a bear | P |
| The monkeys they say | G |
| Come on let us play | G |
| And they frisk in the cocoanut trees | R |
| While the parrots that cling | S |
| To the peanut vines sing | S |
| Or converse with comparative ease | R |
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| Off scamper to bed you shall ride him tonight | D |
| For as soon as you've fallen asleep | T |
| With a jubilant neigh he shall bear you away | G |
| Over forest and hillside and deep | T |
| But tell us my dear all you see and you hear | U |
| In those beautiful lands over there | P |
| Where the Fly Away Horse wings his faraway course | A |
| With the wee one consigned to his care | P |
| Then grandma will cry | H |
| In amazement Oh my | H |
| And she'll think it could never be so | K |
| And only we two | V |
| Shall know it is true | V |
| You and I little precious shall know | K |
Eugene Field
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