The Ride. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGHI DBDB JKJK LBLB MNMN CECE| She rode o'er hill she rode o'er plain | A |
| She rode by fields of barley | B |
| By morning glories filled with rain | A |
| And beechen branches gnarly | B |
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| She rode o'er plain she rode o'er hill | C |
| By orchard land and berry | B |
| Her face was buoyant as the rill | C |
| Her eyes and heart were merry | B |
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| A bird sang here a bird sang there | D |
| Then blithely sang together | E |
| Sang sudden greetings every where | D |
| Good morrow and good weather | E |
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| The sunlight's laughing radiance | F |
| Laughed in her radiant tresses | G |
| The bold breeze set her curls a dance | H |
| Made red her lips with kisses | I |
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| Why ride ye here why ride ye there | D |
| Why ride ye here so merry | B |
| The sunlight living in your hair | D |
| And in your cheek the cherry | B |
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| Why ride ye with your sea green plumes | J |
| Your sea green silken habit | K |
| By balmy bosks of faint perfumes | J |
| Where squats the cunning rabbit | K |
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| The morning's feet are wrought of gold | L |
| The hunter's horn is jolly | B |
| Sir Richard bold was rich and old | L |
| Was old and melancholy | B |
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| A wife they'd have me to his bed | M |
| And to the kirk they hurried | N |
| But now gramercy he is dead | M |
| Perdie is dead and buried | N |
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| I ride by tree I ride by rill | C |
| I ride by rye and clover | E |
| For by the kirk beyond the hill | C |
| Awaits a better lover | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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