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 D2XD2X

Virtue thou hast spells divineA
Spells that savage force controulB
What's the strongest charm of thineA
Courage in a mother's soulB
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Haste my song the scene proclaimC
That may prove the maxim trueD
Fair ones of maternal fameC
Hark for honour speaks to youD
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Noblest of your noble bandE
Brave Marcella chanc'd to roveF
Leading childhood in her handE
Thro' a deep and lonely groveF
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See her child how gay how lightG
Twice two years her life has runH
Like a young Aurora brightG
Sporting near the rising sunH
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Thro' a pass of sandy stoneI
Where autumnal foliage glow'dJ
While the quivering sun beams shoneI
Lay their deep and narrow roadJ
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Now as thro' the dale they pac'dK
Pleas'd with its umbrageous charmL
Lo a fiery steed in hasteK
Prancing spreads a quick alarmL
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Fiercest of Arabia's raceM
Force and beauty form'd his prideN
Vainly tutor'd for the chaceM
Care he scorn'd and rule defiedN
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Soon his rider had been flungO
Tho' like Perseus he adroitP
Oft to flying coursers clungO
Proud of every bold exploitP
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Now on foot he tried in vainQ
Or to soften or subdueD
This wild steed whose leading reinQ
Short and tight he firmly drewD
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But the more the horseman stroveF
To restrain his fiery forceR
More he made the solemn groveF
Echo to his frantic courseR
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Snorting loud with savage leerD
All controuling powers to foilB
See him plunge and see him rearD
Mocking all his leader's toilB
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Fearless for himself aloneI
He of courage bravely mildS
Manly fear was frank to ownI
For the mother and her childS
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For the beast in barb'rous ireD
To the child and mother rush'dT
Both he deem'd must now expireD
By the vicious monster crush'dT
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For his rage with forceful artU
Still he fail'd to turn or tameC
Fear and pity fill'd his heartU
And convuls'd his manly frameC
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Fly he cried in accents weakV
As the rampant courser spedW
Fly was all that he could speakV
Toss'd beneath the monster's headW
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But without her child to flyB
Brave Marcella now disdainedX
As her darling's guard to dieB
This her only hope remainedX
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On the bank where pine trees mixtX
Thick to form an arching woodX
At her back her child she fixtX
And before it bravely stoodX
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Firm in voice in soul elateX
Then in solemn tone she criedX
With her features fixt as fateX
Tell your father how I diedX
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Noble parent nature sawY
Virtue shining in thy soulB
And with sudden wond'rous aweZ
Struck the beast that spurn'd controulB
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For as if thy fixed eyesA2
Darted fascinating flameC
He to thy devout surpriseA2
Stood before thee fondly tameC
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He as touched by powers aboveB2
That can demons dispossessC2
View'd thee with submissive loveB2
Like a spaniel's meek caressC2
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Free from all maternal dreadX
Now 'twas thine to raise and chearD
Him from whom the courser fledX
Trembling yet with generous fearD
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Fear soon turned to strong delightX
When he saw the savage tam'dX
And enchanted by the sightX
Quick the horseman thus exclaim'dX
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God I thank thee I beholdX
Wonders far surpassing thoughtX
More than fiction ever toldX
By maternal virtue wroughtX
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Virtue in thy praises warmD2
I may speak how fair thou artX
I have seen thy fairest formD2
Courage in a mother's heartX

William Hayley



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