Biddy, Be Kind! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCDDCEBEBFFFFBB DGDHBHB| Now what do you want to be playing about for | A |
| Reefing and reaching your head for the bit | B |
| This is the gentlest of canters you're out for | A |
| And neither yourself nor your rider is fit | B |
| I who have lazed | B |
| While the summer sun blazed | B |
| At ease in a hammock with cool things to drink | C |
| You late a rover | D |
| In cocksfoot and clover | D |
| With mud on your mane locks and loose shoes a clink | C |
| This is too soon to be prancing and sidling | E |
| The elm is still green and the ditches are blind | B |
| The sun is still strong and suggestive of idling | E |
| So Biddy be kind | B |
| Time and enough when they're drawing the gorses | F |
| To put up your back with those ominous squeals | F |
| To plunge when they pass you on cantering horses | F |
| To flaunt your red ribbon and fling up your heels | F |
| Slippy and tarred | B |
| Is the highway and hard | B |
| A fall is the last thing on earth I desire | D |
| By all means be sprightly But do it politely | G |
| With not too much fervour and not too much fire | D |
| The season's too young yet for trying a tussle | H |
| Rough riding at present is not to my mind | B |
| Just wait a few weeks till we work up our muscle | H |
| Come Biddy be kind | B |
William Henry Ogilvie
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