Reflections Of A Proud Pedestrian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| I saw the curl of his waving lash | A |
| And the glance of his knowing eye | B |
| And I knew that he thought he was cutting a dash | A |
| As his steed went thundering by | B |
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| And he may ride in the rattling gig | C |
| Or flourish the Stanhope gay | D |
| And dream that he looks exceeding big | C |
| To the people that walk in the way | D |
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| But he shall think when the night is still | E |
| On the stable boy s gathering numbers | F |
| And the ghost of many a veteran bill | E |
| Shall hover around his slumbers | F |
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| The ghastly dun shall worry his sleep | G |
| And constables cluster around him | H |
| And he shall creep from the wood hole deep | G |
| Where their spectre eyes have found him | H |
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| Ay gather your reins and crack your thong | I |
| And bid your steed go faster | J |
| He does not know as he scrambles along | I |
| That he has a fool for his master | J |
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| And hurry away on your lonely ride | K |
| Nor deign from the mire to save me | L |
| I will paddle it stoutly at your side | K |
| With the tandem that nature gave me | L |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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