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 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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