The Ride To The Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFF GGEEHHHIII JJJJCCJJ KKKLLMMEENN OOJJ PPKK JJJQQ RSRJSR TJTTJJOUUO| Now since mine even is come at last | A |
| For I have been the sport of steel | B |
| And hot life ebbeth from me fast | A |
| And I in saddle roll and reel | B |
| Come bind me bind me on my steed | C |
| Of fingering leech I have no need | C |
| The chaplain clasped his mail egrave d knee | D |
| Nor need I more thy whine and thee | D |
| No time is left my sins to tell | E |
| But look ye bind me bind me well | E |
| They bound him strong with leathern thong | F |
| For the ride to the lady should be long | F |
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| Day was dying the poplars fled | G |
| Thin as ghosts on a sky blood red | G |
| Out of the sky the fierce hue fell | E |
| And made the streams as the streams of hell | E |
| All his thoughts as a river flowed | H |
| Flowed aflame as fleet he rode | H |
| Onward flowed to her abode | H |
| Ceased at her feet mirrored her face | I |
| Viewless Death apace apace | I |
| Rode behind him in that race | I |
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| Face mine own mine alone | J |
| Trembling lips my lips have known | J |
| Birdlike stir of the dove soft eyne | J |
| Under the kisses that make them mine | J |
| Only of thee of thee my need | C |
| Only to thee to thee I speed | C |
| The Cross flashed by at the highway's turn | J |
| In a beam of the moon the Face shone stern | J |
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| Far behind had the fight's din died | K |
| The shuddering stars in the welkin wide | K |
| Crowded crowded to see him ride | K |
| The beating hearts of the stars aloof | L |
| Kept time to the beat of the horse's hoof | L |
| What is the throb that thrills so sweet | M |
| Heart of my lady I feel it beat | M |
| But his own strong pulse the fainter fell | E |
| Like the failing tongue of a hushing bell | E |
| The flank of the great limbed steed was wet | N |
| Not alone with the started sweat | N |
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| Fast and fast and the thick black wood | O |
| Arched its cowl like a black friar's hood | O |
| Fast and fast and they plunged therein | J |
| But the viewless rider rode to win | J |
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| Out of the wood to the highway's light | P |
| Galloped the great limbed steed in fright | P |
| The mail clashed cold and the sad owl cried | K |
| And the weight of the dead oppressed his side | K |
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| Fast and fast by the road he knew | J |
| And slow and slow the stars withdrew | J |
| And the waiting heaven turned weirdly blue | J |
| As a garment worn of a wizard grim | Q |
| He neighed at the gate in the morning dim | Q |
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| She heard no sound before her gate | R |
| Though very quiet was her bower | S |
| All was as her hand had left it late | R |
| The needle slept on the broidered vine | J |
| Where the hammer and spikes of the passion flower | S |
| Her fashioning did wait | R |
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| On the couch lay something fair | T |
| With steadfast lips and veil egrave d eyne | J |
| But the lady was not there | T |
| On the wings of shrift and prayer | T |
| Pure as winds that winnow snow | J |
| Her soul had risen twelve hours ago | J |
| The burdened steed at the barred gate stood | O |
| No whit the nearer to his goal | U |
| Now God's great grace assoil the soul | U |
| That went out in the wood | O |
Helen Gray Cone
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