The Centaurs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DDDD DDDD DEDE FDGFG| Up came the young Centaur colts from the plains they were | A |
| fathered in | B |
| Curious awkward afraid | C |
| Burrs on their hocks and their tails they were branded and gathered in | B |
| Mobs and run up to the yard to be made | C |
| - | |
| Starting and shying at straws with sidlings and plungings | D |
| Buckings and whirlings and bolts | D |
| Greener than grass but full ripe for their bridling and lungings | D |
| Up to the yards and to Chiron they bustled the colts | D |
| - | |
| First the light web and the cavesson then the linked keys | D |
| To jingle and turn on the tongue Then with cocked ears | D |
| The hours of watching and envy while comrades at ease | D |
| Passaged and backed making naught of these terrible gears | D |
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| Next over pride and its price at the low seeming fence | D |
| Too oft and too easily taken the world beheld fall | E |
| And none in the yard except Chiron to doubt the immense | D |
| Irretrievable shame of it all | E |
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| Last the trained squadron full charge the sound of a going | F |
| Through dust and spun clods and strong kicks pelted in as | D |
| they went | G |
| And repaid at top speed till the order to halt without slowing | F |
| Showed every colt on his haunches and Chiron content | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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