The Norman Horse-shoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE AFFGGHHDD AIIGGJKLM NCCOOPPQQ| I | A |
| Red glows the forge in Striguil's bounds | B |
| And hammers din and anvil sounds | B |
| And armourers with iron toil | C |
| Barb many a steed for battle's broil | C |
| Foul fall the hand which bends the steel | D |
| Around the courser's thundering heel | D |
| That e'er shall dint a sable wound | E |
| On fair Glamorgan's velvet ground | E |
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| II | A |
| From Chepstow's towers ere dawn of morn | F |
| Was heard afar the bugle horn | F |
| And forth in banded pomp and pride | G |
| Stout Clare and fiery Neville ride | G |
| They swore their banners broad should gleam | H |
| In crimson light on Rymny's stream | H |
| They vowed Caerphili's sod should feel | D |
| The Norman charger's spurning heel | D |
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| III | A |
| And sooth they swore the sun arose | I |
| And Rymny's wave with crimson glows | I |
| For Clare's red banner floating wide | G |
| Roll'd down the stream to Severn's tide | G |
| And sooth they vow'd the trampled green | J |
| Show'd where hot Neville's charge had been | K |
| In every sable hoof tramp stood | L |
| A Norman horseman's curdling blood | M |
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| IV | N |
| Old Chepstow's brides may curse the toil | C |
| That arm'd stout Clare for Cambrian broil | C |
| Their orphans long the art may rue | O |
| For Neville's war horse forged the shoe | O |
| No more the stamp of armed steed | P |
| Shall dint Glamorgan's velvet mead | P |
| Nor trace be there in early spring | Q |
| Save of the Fairies' emerald ring | Q |
Walter Scott (sir)
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