As I Wandered Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDE CCFGGFHHF IIJKKLMMJ NNOPPOQQO RRSTTSUUS VVFWWFDDX LLFYYFZZF| As I wandered home | A |
| By Hedworth Combe | A |
| I heard a lone horse whinney | B |
| And saw on the hill | C |
| Standing statue still | C |
| At the top of the old oak spinney | B |
| A rough haired hack | D |
| With a girl on his back | D |
| And 'Hounds ' I said 'for a guinea ' | E |
| - | |
| The wind blew chill | C |
| Over Larchey Hill | C |
| And it couldn't have blown much colder | F |
| Her nose was blue | G |
| And her pigtails two | G |
| Hung damply over her shoulder | F |
| She might have been ten | H |
| Or guessing again | H |
| She might have been twelve months older | F |
| - | |
| To a tight pink lip | I |
| She pressed her whip | I |
| By way of imposing quiet | J |
| I bowed my head | K |
| To the word unsaid | K |
| Accepting the lady's fiat | L |
| And noted the while | M |
| Her Belvoir style | M |
| As she rated a hound for riot | J |
| - | |
| A lean form leapt | N |
| O'er the fence and crept | N |
| Through the ditch with his thief's heart quaking | O |
| But the face of the maid | P |
| No hint betrayed | P |
| That she noticed the brambles shaking | O |
| Till she saw him clear | Q |
| Of her one wild fear | Q |
| The chance of his backward breaking | O |
| - | |
| Then dainty and neat | R |
| She rose in her seat | R |
| That the better her eyes might follow | S |
| Where a shadow of brown | T |
| Over Larchley Down | T |
| Launched out like a driving swallow | S |
| And she quickened his speed | U |
| Through bracken and weed | U |
| With a regular Pytchley holloa | S |
| - | |
| Raging they came | V |
| Like a torrent of flame | V |
| There where nineteen couple and over | F |
| And a huntsman grey | W |
| Who blew them away | W |
| With the note of a true hound lover | F |
| While his Whip sat back | D |
| On her rough old hack | D |
| And called to the last in covert | X |
| - | |
| Then cramming down flat | L |
| Her quaint little hat | L |
| And shaking the old horse together | F |
| She was off like a bird | Y |
| And the last that I heard | Y |
| Was a 'For'ard ' that died in the heather | F |
| As she took up her place | Z |
| At the tail of the chase | Z |
| Like a ten season lord of the leather | F |
William Henry Ogilvie
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