The Black Hound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEDFBGBHFIFJKLK AMNMOFPFQBRSATBT| WHITE TOOTHED is the Black Hound | A |
| And ever as he comes after | B |
| There is no sweetness in wine | C |
| Nor is there joyance in laughter | B |
| Red tongued is the Black Hound | A |
| And ever as he speeds baying | D |
| There is no shaking him off | E |
| Nor is there stopping or staying | D |
| Keen sensed in the thick dark | F |
| He follows for ever and ever | B |
| Nought stays him in his pursuit | G |
| Nor marsh nor mountain nor river | B |
| Day long through the broad light | H |
| His tongue like a flame outleaping | F |
| He hunts and we fly before | I |
| Wan faced foot weary and weeping | F |
| Night through in the still hours | J |
| When stars in the sky assemble | K |
| We hear his cry on the roads | L |
| And startled staring we tremble | K |
| White toothed is the Black Hound | A |
| And speed to his limbs is given | M |
| God help and pity us all | N |
| Who fly for ever hard driven | M |
| Time comes when the feet fail | O |
| Or drag on the ways unwilling | F |
| Then fast froth flakes on his jaws | P |
| He speeds keen fanged to the killing | F |
| Then some as they pass say | Q |
| Few pausing and weeping fewer | B |
| 'Hound work is this that we see | R |
| Fang work of him the Pursuer ' | S |
| Black Care is the Black Hound | A |
| And ever 'tis his to follow | T |
| Pale men from birth to that hour | B |
| When grave mouths open and swallow | T |
Roderic Quinn
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