The Old Squire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM NONO ABAB PQPR SJTJ UKVW XYXY ZA2B2A2 C2D2C2D2 AE2AE2 HF2HG2 AFH2F

I LIKE the hunting of the hareA
Better than that of the foxB
I like the joyous morning airA
And the crowing of the cocksB
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I like the calm of the early fieldsC
The ducks asleep by the lakeD
The quiet hour which Nature yieldsC
Before mankind is awakeD
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I like the pheasants and feeding thingsE
Of the unsuspicious mornF
I like the flap of the wood pigeon s wingsE
As she rises from the cornF
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I like the blackbird s shriek and his rushG
From the turnips as I pass byH
And the partridge hiding her head in a bushI
For her young ones cannot flyH
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I like these things and I like to rideJ
When all the world is in bedK
To the top of the hill where the sky grows wideJ
And where the sun grows redK
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The beagles at my horse heels trotL
In silence after meM
There s Ruby Roger Diamond DotL
Old Slut and MargeryM
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A score of names well used and dearN
The names my childhood knewO
The horn with which I rouse their cheerN
Is the horn my father blewO
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I like the hunting of the hareA
Better than that of the foxB
The new world still is all less fairA
Than the old world it mocksB
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I covet not a wider rangeP
Than these dear manors giveQ
I take my pleasures without changeP
And as I lived I liveR
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I leave my neighbors to their thoughtS
My choice it is and prideJ
On my own lands to find my sportT
In my own fields to rideJ
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The hare herself no better lovesU
The field where she was bredK
Than I the habit of these grovesV
My own inheritedW
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I know my quarries every oneX
The meuse where she sits lowY
The road she chose to day was runX
A hundred years agoY
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The lags the gills the forest waysZ
The hedgerows one and allA2
These are the kingdoms of my chaseB2
And bounded by my wallA2
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Nor has the world a better thingC2
Though one should search it roundD2
Than thus to live one s own sole kingC2
Upon one s own sole groundD2
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I like the hunting of the hareA
It brings me day by dayE2
The memory of old days as fairA
With dead men passed awayE2
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To these as homeward still I plyH
And pass the churchyard gateF2
Where all are laid as I must lieH
I stop and raise my hatG2
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I like the hunting of the hareA
New sports I hold in scornF
I like to be as my fathers wereH2
In the days e er I was bornF

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt



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