The Charioteer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDBCDBBCDDCDCCDED DEDDDDD| TO A CHILD | A |
| - | |
| LOVE be thy charioteer | B |
| In all thy brightening and thy darkening hours | C |
| May he be at thine ear | B |
| So shalt thou sail at ease above the tow'rs | C |
| Where pale Ambition in his clouded hood | D |
| Climbs step by step the stair | B |
| And Beauty dancing in the roadside flow'rs | C |
| Or resting in her mountain quietude | D |
| Tresses a wander on the sunlit air | B |
| Shall meet thee everywhere | B |
| Then the fast withered leaves of poor Caprice | C |
| Shall live again and she be happy yet | D |
| Freed from the tangle of her glittering net | D |
| And Poverty no longer want for alms | C |
| And everything be blessed | D |
| Save fevered Avarice | C |
| With his discoloured palms | C |
| And talons prisoned in his own gray breast | D |
| Above the path of death | E |
| Through field and wood | D |
| Mountain and flood | D |
| Upon the whirlwind's breath | E |
| My way be sped | D |
| If die thou must | D |
| With wine and crust | D |
| Through flow'rs to dust | D |
| Be thou so charioted | D |
Herbert Asquith
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