The Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QDQD FRFR DBDB ISIS DTDT UCUC VWVW BXBX XXXX XXXX YBZB A2CA2C B2C2B2C2 XDXD XXXX XXXX D2XD2XVirtue thou hast spells divine | A |
Spells that savage force controul | B |
What's the strongest charm of thine | A |
Courage in a mother's soul | B |
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Haste my song the scene proclaim | C |
That may prove the maxim true | D |
Fair ones of maternal fame | C |
Hark for honour speaks to you | D |
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Noblest of your noble band | E |
Brave Marcella chanc'd to rove | F |
Leading childhood in her hand | E |
Thro' a deep and lonely grove | F |
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See her child how gay how light | G |
Twice two years her life has run | H |
Like a young Aurora bright | G |
Sporting near the rising sun | H |
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Thro' a pass of sandy stone | I |
Where autumnal foliage glow'd | J |
While the quivering sun beams shone | I |
Lay their deep and narrow road | J |
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Now as thro' the dale they pac'd | K |
Pleas'd with its umbrageous charm | L |
Lo a fiery steed in haste | K |
Prancing spreads a quick alarm | L |
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Fiercest of Arabia's race | M |
Force and beauty form'd his pride | N |
Vainly tutor'd for the chace | M |
Care he scorn'd and rule defied | N |
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Soon his rider had been flung | O |
Tho' like Perseus he adroit | P |
Oft to flying coursers clung | O |
Proud of every bold exploit | P |
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Now on foot he tried in vain | Q |
Or to soften or subdue | D |
This wild steed whose leading rein | Q |
Short and tight he firmly drew | D |
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But the more the horseman strove | F |
To restrain his fiery force | R |
More he made the solemn grove | F |
Echo to his frantic course | R |
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Snorting loud with savage leer | D |
All controuling powers to foil | B |
See him plunge and see him rear | D |
Mocking all his leader's toil | B |
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Fearless for himself alone | I |
He of courage bravely mild | S |
Manly fear was frank to own | I |
For the mother and her child | S |
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For the beast in barb'rous ire | D |
To the child and mother rush'd | T |
Both he deem'd must now expire | D |
By the vicious monster crush'd | T |
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For his rage with forceful art | U |
Still he fail'd to turn or tame | C |
Fear and pity fill'd his heart | U |
And convuls'd his manly frame | C |
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Fly he cried in accents weak | V |
As the rampant courser sped | W |
Fly was all that he could speak | V |
Toss'd beneath the monster's head | W |
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But without her child to fly | B |
Brave Marcella now disdained | X |
As her darling's guard to die | B |
This her only hope remained | X |
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On the bank where pine trees mixt | X |
Thick to form an arching wood | X |
At her back her child she fixt | X |
And before it bravely stood | X |
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Firm in voice in soul elate | X |
Then in solemn tone she cried | X |
With her features fixt as fate | X |
Tell your father how I died | X |
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Noble parent nature saw | Y |
Virtue shining in thy soul | B |
And with sudden wond'rous awe | Z |
Struck the beast that spurn'd controul | B |
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For as if thy fixed eyes | A2 |
Darted fascinating flame | C |
He to thy devout surprise | A2 |
Stood before thee fondly tame | C |
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He as touched by powers above | B2 |
That can demons dispossess | C2 |
View'd thee with submissive love | B2 |
Like a spaniel's meek caress | C2 |
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Free from all maternal dread | X |
Now 'twas thine to raise and chear | D |
Him from whom the courser fled | X |
Trembling yet with generous fear | D |
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Fear soon turned to strong delight | X |
When he saw the savage tam'd | X |
And enchanted by the sight | X |
Quick the horseman thus exclaim'd | X |
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God I thank thee I behold | X |
Wonders far surpassing thought | X |
More than fiction ever told | X |
By maternal virtue wrought | X |
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Virtue in thy praises warm | D2 |
I may speak how fair thou art | X |
I have seen thy fairest form | D2 |
Courage in a mother's heart | X |
William Hayley
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