Tray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCD EEFGE HHIJH BBKKB LLMML NOPPN JJBB IILLI QQBB| Sing me a hero Quench my thirst | A |
| Of soul ye bards | B |
| Quoth Bard the first | A |
| Sir Olaf the good knight did don | C |
| His helm and eke his habergeon | C |
| Sir Olaf and his bard | D |
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| That sin scathed brow quoth Bard the second | E |
| That eye wide ope as tho' Fate beckoned | E |
| My hero to some steep beneath | F |
| Which precipice smiled tempting Death | G |
| You too without your host have reckoned | E |
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| A beggar child let's hear this third | H |
| Sat on a quay's edge like a bird | H |
| Sang to herself at careless play | I |
| And fell into the stream 'Dismay | J |
| Help you the standers by ' None stirred | H |
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| Bystanders reason think of wives | B |
| And children ere they risk their lives | B |
| Over the balustrade has bounced | K |
| A mere instinctive dog and pounced | K |
| Plumb on the prize 'How well he dives | B |
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| 'Up he comes with the child see tight | L |
| In mouth alive too clutched from quite | L |
| A depth of ten feet twelve I bet | M |
| Good dog What off again There's yet | M |
| Another child to save All right | L |
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| 'How strange we saw no other fall | N |
| It's instinct in the animal | O |
| Good dog But he's a long while under | P |
| If he got drowned I should not wonder | P |
| Strong current that against the wall | N |
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| 'Here lie comes holds in mouth this time | J |
| What may the thing be Well that's prime | J |
| Now did you ever Reason reigns | B |
| In man alone since all Tray's pains | B |
| Have fished the child's doll from the slime ' | - |
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| And so amid the laughter gay | I |
| Trotted my hero off old Tray | I |
| Till somebody prerogatived | L |
| With reason reasoned 'Why he dived | L |
| His brain would show us I should say | I |
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| 'John go and catch or if needs be | Q |
| Purchase that animal for me | Q |
| By vivisection at expense | B |
| Of half an hour and eighteen pence | B |
| How brain secretes dog's soul we'll see ' | - |
Robert Browning
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