The Stricken Hart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CDC EEE FFF CCC| The stricken hart had fled the brake | A |
| His courage spent for life's dear sake | A |
| He came to die beside the lake | A |
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| The golden trout leaped up to view | B |
| The moorfowl clapped his wings and crew | B |
| The swallow brushed him as she flew | B |
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| He looked upon the glorious sun | C |
| His blood dropped slowly on the stone | D |
| He loved the life so nearly won | C |
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| And then he died The ravens found | E |
| A carcase couched upon the ground | E |
| They said their god had dealt the wound | E |
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| The Eternal Father calmly shook | F |
| One page untitled from life's book | F |
| Few words None ever cared to look | F |
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| Yet woe for life thus idly riven | C |
| He blindly loved what God had given | C |
| And love some say has conquered Heaven | C |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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