The Last Hockey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBDEFBGHIBA BEJKLBAMBNOABBPK QRASAETBUVWXVAY BZMVABAA2VAVNVVBBB2V QBZVV AC2BBVGD2 E2BF2VG2 MVC2H2D2 VAI2C2 J2VVAVVK2BVB BL2 BJ2VM2

After A TA
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So for the last great Hockey of the HillsB
Damsel v Dame by ruder cynics calledC
The Tournament of the Dead DignitiesB
We gained the lists and I thro' humorous lensB
Perused the revels Here on autumn grassB
Leapt the lithe elbowed Spin and strongly mergedD
In scrimmage with the comfortable WifeE
And temporary Widow know you notF
Such trifles are the merest commonplaceB
In loftier contours Twenty two in allG
They numbered and none other trod the fieldH
Save one the bold Sir Referee whose chargeI
It was to keep fair order in the listsB
And peace 'twixt Dame and Damsel married heA
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O brothers had ye seen them O the gamesB
Fleet footed some lightly they leapt and draveE
Or missed the pellet then perchance would turnJ
With hand that sought their tresses Others movedK
Careless in half disdain nor urged pursuitL
Yet ever and anon would shriek and missB
The pellet while the bold Sir RefereeA
Skipt in avoidance From the factions cameM
The cry of voices shrilling woman wiseB
The clash of stick on stick the muffled shinN
The sudden whistle and the murmurous noteO
Of mutual disaffection OtherwhereA
The myriad coolie chortled knightly palmsB
Clapped and the whole vale echoed to the noiseB
Of ladies who in session to the WestP
Sat with the light behind them self approvedK
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Fortune with equal favour poised the scaleQ
And loudlier rang the trouble till I heardR
'A Susan Ho A Susan ' She oh sheA
One whom myself had picked from out the crowdS
Of hot girl athletes with their tousled hairA
Was on the ball Deftly she smote and draveE
On and so paddled swiftly in its wakeT
The good ash gleamed and fell the forward ranksB
Gave passage once again she smote againU
Paddled nor passed but paddling ever nearedV
The mournful guardian of the Sacred GoalW
Hewing and hacking Little need to tellX
Of Susan in her glory whom she smoteV
She felled and whom she shocked she overthrewA
And shrieking passed exultant to her doomY
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For Susan while she clove a devious courseB
Moved crab like in a strange diagonalZ
And driving crossed the frontiers Thither cameM
The bold Sir Referee and shrilled abroadV
The tremulous momentary 'touch ' But sheA
Heaving with unaccustomed exerciseB
Blinded and baffled wild with all despairA
Stood sweeping as a churl that sweeps the scytheA2
In earlier pastures Twice he skipped and pouredV
The desperate whistle Once again and heA
Skipping diffused the whistle But at lastV
So shrewd a blow she dealt him on the shinN
That had he stood reverse wise on his headV
Not on his feet I know not what had chancedV
Then to the shuddering Orient skies there roseB
A marvellous great shriek the splintering noiseB
Of shattered ash plant and of battered shankB2
Mixed with a higher For Susan overwroughtV
Lost footing and with one clear dolorous wailQ
Fell headlong only more so And I sawB
Clothed in black stockings mystic wonderfulZ
That which I saw The coolies yelled The crowdV
Closed round and so the tourney reached an endV
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Then home they bore the bold Sir RefereeA
In Susan's litter and they tended himC2
With curious tendance and they drowned his viewsB
On Susan and the tourney and the placeB
Whither he'd see them ere again he ruledV
Such functions with a sweet small song I callG
It sweet that should not This is how it ranD2
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'Our Referee has fall'n has fall'n The stickE2
The little stick he leapt at in the listsB
Has riven and cleft the bark and raised a bulkF2
Of crescent span that spreads on every sideV
A thousand hues all flushing into oneG2
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'Our Referee has fall'n has fall'n She cameM
The woman with her ash and lo the woundV
But we will make a bandage for the limbC2
And swathe it heel to knee with splints and woolH2
And embrocations for the hurts of manD2
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'Our Referee has fall'n has fall'n he wailedV
With our own ears we heard him and we knewA
There dwelt an iron nature in the grainI2
The splintering ash was cloven on his limbC2
His limb was battered to the cannon bone '-
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So passed that stout but choleric knight awayJ2
And we by certain wandering instincts ledV
Made for a small pavilion where we foundV
Viands and what not and the thirsty flowerA
Of mountain knighthood gathered at the boardV
And entering here we lingered and discussedV
The what not and the viands and in timeK2
Drew to the tourney giving each his viewsB
But mostly wondering what the coolies thoughtV
To see these ladies of the Ruling RaceB
'Yoked in all exercise of noble end '-
And Public Exhibition Was it wiseB
Some questioned others was it quite the thingL2
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And here indeed we left it for the shadesB
Deepened the high swift narrowing crest of dayJ2
Brake from the hills and down the path we wentV
Well pleased for it was guest night at the ClubM2

John Kendall (dum-dum)



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