Pegasus In Harness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMLLMNNOPQP RRSSCCRRTTRR FFUURRRRVV TTRRUURWRWRXRX SSRGRGRRYYDD VVRRRRDDRRZZ| Once to a horse fair it may perhaps have been | A |
| Where other things are bought and sold I mean | B |
| At the Haymarket there the muses' horse | C |
| A hungry poet brought to sell of course | C |
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| 'The hippogriff neighed shrilly loudly | D |
| And reared upon his hind legs proudly | D |
| In utter wonderment each stood and cried | E |
| The noble regal beast But woe betide | E |
| Two hideous wings his slender form deface | F |
| The finest team he else would not disgrace | F |
| The breed said they is doubtless rare | G |
| But who would travel through the air | G |
| Not one of them would risk his gold | H |
| At length a farmer grew more bold | H |
| As for his wings I of no use should find them | I |
| But then how easy 'tis to clip or bind them | I |
| The horse for drawing may be useful found | J |
| So friend I don't mind giving twenty pound | J |
| The other glad to sell his merchandise | K |
| Cried Done and Hans rode off upon his prize | K |
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| The noble creature was ere long put to | L |
| But scarcely felt the unaccustomed load | M |
| Than panting to soar upwards off he flew | L |
| And filled with honest anger overthrew | L |
| The cart where an abyss just met the road | M |
| Ho ho thought Hans No cart to this mad beast | N |
| I'll trust Experience makes one wise at least | N |
| To drive the coach to morrow now my course is | O |
| And he as leader in the team shall go | P |
| The lively fellow'll save me full two horses | Q |
| As years pass on he'll doubtless tamer grow | P |
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| All went on well at first The nimble steed | R |
| His partners roused like lightning was their speed | R |
| What happened next Toward heaven was turned his eye | S |
| Unused across the solid ground to fly | S |
| He quitted soon the safe and beaten course | C |
| And true to nature's strong resistless force | C |
| Ran over bog and moor o'er hedge and pasture tilled | R |
| An equal madness soon the other horses filled | R |
| No reins could hold them in no help was near | T |
| Till only picture the poor travellers' fear | T |
| The coach well shaken and completely wrecked | R |
| Upon a hill's steep top at length was checked | R |
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| If this is always sure to be the case | F |
| Hans cried and cut a very sorry face | F |
| He'll never do to draw a coach or wagon | U |
| Let's see if we can't tame the fiery dragon | U |
| By means of heavy work and little food | R |
| And so the plan was tried But what ensued | R |
| The handsome beast before three days had passed | R |
| Wasted to nothing Stay I see at last | R |
| Cried Hans Be quick you fellows yoke him now | V |
| With my most sturdy ox before the plough | V |
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| No sooner said than done In union queer | T |
| Together yoked were soon winged horse and steer | T |
| The griffin pranced with rage and his remaining might | R |
| Exerted to resume his old accustomed flight | R |
| 'Twas all in vain his partner stepped with circumspection | U |
| And Phoebus' haughty steed must follow his direction | U |
| Until at last by long resistance spent | R |
| When strength his limbs no longer was controlling | W |
| The noble creature with affliction bent | R |
| Fell to the ground and in the dust lay rolling | W |
| Accursed beast at length with fury mad | R |
| Hans shouted while he soundly plied the lash | X |
| Even for ploughing then thou art too bad | R |
| That fellow was a rogue to sell such trash | X |
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| Ere yet his heavy blows had ceased to fly | S |
| A brisk and merry youth by chance came by | S |
| A lute was tinkling in his hand | R |
| And through his light and flowing hair | G |
| Was twined with grace a golden band | R |
| Whither my friend with that strange pair | G |
| From far he to the peasant cried | R |
| A bird and ox to one rope tied | R |
| Was such a team e'er heard of pray | Y |
| Thy horse's worth I'd fain essay | Y |
| Just for one moment lend him me | D |
| Observe and thou shalt wonders see | D |
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| The hippogriff was loosened from the plough | V |
| Upon his back the smiling youth leaped now | V |
| No sooner did the creature understand | R |
| That he was guided by a master hand | R |
| Than 'ginst his bit he champed and upward soared | R |
| While lightning from his flaming eyes outpoured | R |
| No longer the same being royally | D |
| A spirit ay a god ascended he | D |
| Spread in a moment to the stormy wind | R |
| His noble wings and left the earth behind | R |
| And ere the eye could follow him | Z |
| Had vanished in the heavens dim | Z |
Friedrich Schiller
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