Fox-hunting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDBDB EFEFGHGH IJKJLJLJ MNMJAOAO HJHJPBPB QAQABBBB RHRHSTSJ

THE FOX MEDITATESA
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When Samson set my brush afireB
To spoil the Timnites barleyC
I made my point for LeicestershireB
And left Philistia earlyC
Through Gath and Rankesborough Gorse I fledD
And took the Coplow Road sirB
And was a Gentleman in RedD
When all the Quorn wore woad sirB
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When Rome lay massed on Hadrian's WallE
And nothing much was doingF
Her bored Centurions heard my callE
O' nights when I went wooingF
They raised a pack they ran it wellG
For I was there to run 'emH
From Aesica to Carter FellG
And down North Tyne to HunnumH
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When William landed hot for bloodI
And Harold's hosts were smittenJ
I lay at earth in Battle WoodK
While Domesday Book was writtenJ
Whatever harm he did to manL
I owe him pure affectionJ
For in his righteous reign beganL
The first of Game ProtectionJ
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When Charles my namesake lost his maskM
And Oliver dropped his'nN
I found those Northern Squires a taskM
To keep 'em out of prisonJ
In boots as big as milking pailsA
With holsters on the pommelO
They chevied me across the DalesA
Instead of fighting CromwellO
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When thrifty Walpole took the helmH
And hedging came in fashionJ
The March of Progress gave my realmH
Enclosure and PlantationJ
'Twas then to soothe their discontentP
I showed each pounded MasterB
However fast the Commons wentP
I went a little fasterB
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When Pigg and Jorrocks held the stageQ
And Steam had linked the ShiresA
I broke the staid Victorian ageQ
To posts and rails and wiresA
Then fifty mile was none too farB
To go by train to coverB
Till some dam' sutler pupped a carB
And decent sport was overB
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When men grew shy of hunting stagR
For fear the Law might try 'emH
The Car put up an average bagR
Of twenty dead per diemH
Then every road was made a rinkS
For Coroners to sit onT
And so began in skid and stinkS
The real blood sport of BritainJ

Rudyard Kipling



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