The Bright Rider Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDDEAFGGHIHJIKJL MBBNOBPPBJJBQNBRRQ| All the night through I drank | A |
| Sleep like water or cool cider | B |
| Life flowed over and I sank | A |
| Down below the night of clouds | C |
| Then on a pale horse was rider | B |
| Through long brushing woods | D |
| Where the owl in silence broods | D |
| Quavers and is quiet again | E |
| Where the grass dark and rank | A |
| Breathes on the still air its rain | F |
| Rain and dark and green and sound | G |
| Closing slowly round | G |
| Swept me as I rode | H |
| And rode on until I came | I |
| Where a white cold river flowed | H |
| Under woods thin and bare | J |
| In the moon's long candle flame | I |
| Through the woods the wind crawled | K |
| Leviathan and here and there | J |
| Branches creaked and old winds howled | L |
| Sick for home | M |
| All the night I saw the river | B |
| As a girl that sees beside her | B |
| Love between fear and fear | N |
| Riding and is dumb | O |
| The white horse turned to cross the river | B |
| But the waters like a wall | P |
| Rose and hung dark over all | P |
| And as they fell the river wider | B |
| Wider grew and sky was bare | J |
| Save of the sick candle's stare | J |
| Death the divider | B |
| Glittered cold and dark and deep | Q |
| Under banks of fear | N |
| But that rider | B |
| Trembling bright rode on | R |
| Trembling and bright rode on | R |
| Through green lanes of sleep | Q |
John Frederick Freeman
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