A Runnable Stag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEED FGFGGDCCD HIHIIDEED JKJLLCAAD CCCCCDEED MCMCCNOOD PQPQQDRRD ASASSDCCD TUTUUDRRD CVCVVDCCD| When the pods went pop on the broom green broom | A |
| And apples began to be golden skinn'd | B |
| We harbour'd a stag in the Priory coomb | A |
| And we feather'd his trail up wind up wind | C |
| We feather'd his trail up wind | C |
| A stag of warrant a stag a stag | D |
| A runnable stag a kingly crop | E |
| Brow bay and tray and three on top | E |
| A stag a runnable stag | D |
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| Then the huntsman's horn rang yap yap yap | F |
| And 'Forwards' we heard the harbourer shout | G |
| But 'twas only a brocket that broke a gap | F |
| In the beechen underwood driven out | G |
| From the underwood antler'd out | G |
| By warrant and might of the stag the stag | D |
| The runnable stag whose lordly mind | C |
| Was bent on sleep though beam'd and tined | C |
| He stood a runnable stag | D |
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| So we tufted the covert till afternoon | H |
| With Tinkerman's Pup and Bell of the North | I |
| And hunters were sulky and hounds out of tune | H |
| Before we tufted the right stag forth | I |
| Before we tufted him forth | I |
| The stag of warrant the wily stag | D |
| The runnable stag with his kingly crop | E |
| Brow bay and tray and three on top | E |
| The royal and runnable stag | D |
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| It was Bell of the North and Tinkerman's Pup | J |
| That stuck to the scent till the copse was drawn | K |
| 'Tally ho tally ho ' and the hunt was up | J |
| The tufters whipp'd and the pack laid on | L |
| The resolute pack laid on | L |
| And the stag of warrant away at last | C |
| The runnable stag the same the same | A |
| His hoofs on fire his horns like flame | A |
| A stag a runnable stag | D |
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| 'Let your gelding be if you check or chide | C |
| He stumbles at once and you're out of the hunt | C |
| For three hundred gentlemen able to ride | C |
| On hunters accustom'd to bear the brunt | C |
| Accustom'd to bear the brunt | C |
| Are after the runnable stag the stag | D |
| The runnable stag with his kingly crop | E |
| Brow bay and tray and three on top | E |
| The right the runnable stag | D |
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| By perilous paths in coomb and dell | M |
| The heather the rocks and the river bed | C |
| The pace grew hot for the scent lay well | M |
| And a runnable stag goes right ahead | C |
| The quarry went right ahead | C |
| Ahead ahead and fast and far | N |
| His antler'd crest his cloven hoof | O |
| Brow bay and tray and three aloof | O |
| The stag the runnable stag | D |
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| For a matter of twenty miles and more | P |
| By the densest hedge and the highest wall | Q |
| Through herds of bullocks lie baffled the lore | P |
| Of harbourer huntsman hounds and all | Q |
| Of harbourer hounds and all | Q |
| The stag of warrant the wily stag | D |
| For twenty miles and five and five | R |
| He ran and he never was caught alive | R |
| This stag this runnable stag | D |
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| When he turn'd at bay in the leafy gloom | A |
| In the emerald gloom where the brook ran deep | S |
| He heard in the distance the rollers boom | A |
| And he saw In a vision of peaceful sleep | S |
| In a wonderful vision of sleep | S |
| A stag of warrant a stag a stag | D |
| A runnable stag in a jewell'd bed | C |
| Under the sheltering ocean dead | C |
| A stag a runnable stag | D |
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| So a fateful hope lit up his eye | T |
| And he open'd his nostrils wide again | U |
| And he toss'd his branching antlers high | T |
| As he headed the hunt down the Charlock glen | U |
| As he raced down the echoing glen | U |
| For five miles more the stag the stag | D |
| For twenty miles and five and five | R |
| Not to be caught now dead or alive | R |
| The stag the runnable stag | D |
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| Three hundred gentleman able to ride | C |
| Three hundred horses as gallant and free | V |
| Beheld him escape on the evening tide | C |
| Far out till he sank in the Severn Sea | V |
| Till he sank in the depths of the sea | V |
| The stag the buoyant stag the stag | D |
| That slept at last in a jewell'd bed | C |
| Under the sheltering ocean spread | C |
| The stag the runnable stag | D |
John Davidson
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