Once We Went Gaily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJKLL MMNN| Once we went gaily with never a care | A |
| And the bigger the fences the bolder we were | B |
| Once the wild wind was our spur and our lash | C |
| Once we would laugh at the splinter and crash | C |
| As the rails broke behind us and thrill to the call | D |
| Of twelve foot of water or five foot of wall | D |
| Once we could cope with the bucker's demands | E |
| Once the hard puller came back to our hands | E |
| Once the green four year old fretting and free | F |
| Flinging the foam in white flecks to his knee | F |
| Bent to our bidding and held us our place | G |
| O'er the stiffest of country whatever the pace | G |
| To blood running hotly to hearts beating strong | H |
| Not the longest of days was a moment too long | H |
| Till the evening drew over its mantle of stars | I |
| We would ride to the hoof beat and rattle of bars | I |
| There was song in the gale there was kiss in the rain | J |
| Ah Once we went gaily but never again | K |
| For the harsh years have stolen that magical zest | L |
| When with confident courage we rode with the best | L |
| Now swift and unchallenged the braver may pass | M |
| On their reefing blood horses hard held on the grass | M |
| The nerve is departed the rapture denied | N |
| And the chase must be left to the young ones to ride | N |
William Henry Ogilvie
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