The Old Grey Mare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNONCC| There's a line of rails on an upland green | A |
| With a good take off and a landing sound | B |
| Six fences grim as were ever seen | A |
| And it's there I would be with fox and hound | B |
| Oh that was a country free and fair | C |
| For the raking stride of my old grey mare | C |
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| With her raking stride and her head borne high | D |
| And her ears a prick and her heart a flame | E |
| And the steady look of her deep brown eye | D |
| I warrant the grey mare knew the game | E |
| It was Up to it lass and before I knew | F |
| We were up and over and on we flew | F |
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| The rooks from the grass got up and so | G |
| With a caw and flap away they went | H |
| When the grey mare made up her mind to go | G |
| At the tail of the bounds on a breast high scent | H |
| The best of the startled rooks might fail | I |
| To match her flight over post and rail | I |
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| While some of the thrusters grew unnerved | J |
| And looked and longed for an open gate | K |
| And one crashed down and another swerved | J |
| She went for it always true and straight | K |
| She pounded the lot for she made it good | L |
| With never a touch of splintered wood | L |
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| Full many a year has come and gone | M |
| Since last she gathered her spring for me | N |
| And lifted me up and so flew on | O |
| Unchecked in a country fair and free | N |
| I've ridden a score since then but ne'er | C |
| Crossed one that could live with the old grey mare | C |
R. C. Lehmann
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