The Fox Hunters. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE A FFGGHHIJ A KKLLMMNN O PPQQRRRSS O TTTKKOOCCI | A |
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With fleet limbed steeds and baying pack | B |
They follow close on Reynard's track | B |
And wake the slumbering echoes round | C |
With music of the horn and hound | C |
Through wood and field o'er hill and dale | D |
They course him in the moonlight pale | D |
And sport they find which brings delight | E |
These reckless riders of the night | E |
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II | A |
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The game is up away away | F |
Nor hedge nor fence their course can stay | F |
They clear them at a single leap | G |
And like the wind they onward sweep | G |
O'er fallen trunk and hidden ditch | H |
The fearless horsemen plunge and pitch | H |
And heedless all they follow on | I |
With ringing shout and winding horn | J |
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III | A |
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Thy wondrous ride oh Tam O'Shanter | K |
To speed like theirs was but a canter | K |
Had you bestrode that night instead | L |
Of gray mare Meg a thoroughbred | L |
Such as Kentuckians only breed | M |
To Scotia then an unknown steed | M |
No carline could have caught his rump | N |
And left your brute with scarce a stump | N |
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IV | O |
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His foaming horse with throbbing sides | P |
Unslackened yet his pace he rides | P |
Till in among the yelping hounds | Q |
The foremost huntsman proudly bounds | Q |
And sees the leaders of the chase | R |
Two matchless dogs that set the pace | R |
O'ertake the game and win the race | R |
And then dismounts and feels the flush | S |
Of victory as he takes the brush | S |
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V | O |
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O royal sport befitting kings | T |
It bids the demon Care take wings | T |
And the rose's hue to the cheek it brings | T |
And sweeter music none can hear | K |
Than that which greets the list'ning ear | K |
By distance mellowed to a key | O |
That breathes divinest harmony | O |
And wakes the slumbering echoes round | C |
The winding horn and baying hound | C |
George W. Doneghy
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