The Hydaspes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF FGGH IGHJKLMG| And I cooing in my saddle with lost time | A |
| His weapons and horses the finest | B |
| Beloved of God engendered fiercely | C |
| for the occasion with | D |
| pin stripes and a drinking vessel | E |
| of the most expert silver | F |
| - | |
| Pharaonic splendor | F |
| ingots of the heaviest gold | G |
| borrowed sun bright yet so untarnished | G |
| they hold up the morning sky | H |
| - | |
| Two hands encase that handsome | I |
| volume finest of imported leather and | G |
| saddle soap transparent to the eye | H |
| so that all might ring forth | J |
| its belated vision | K |
| not be dreary earthed with brine | L |
| but terse | M |
| furtive inside the gathering glade | G |
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