The Huntsman's Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDEDEFGFGHBIB JKJKFLFL| The galloping seasons have slackened his pace | A |
| And stone wall and timber have battered his knees | B |
| It is many a year since he gave up his place | A |
| To live out his life in comparative ease | B |
| No more does he stand with his scarlet and white | C |
| Like a statue of marble girth deep in the gorse | B |
| No more does he carry the Horn of Delight | C |
| That called us to follow the huntsman's old horse | B |
| How many will pass him and not understand | D |
| As he trots down the road going cramped in his stride | E |
| That he once set the pace to the best in the land | D |
| Ere they tightened his curb for a lady to ride | E |
| When the music begins and a right one's away | F |
| When hoof strokes are thudding like drums on the ground | G |
| The old spirit wakes in the worn looking grey | F |
| And the pride of his youth comes to life at a bound | G |
| He leans on the bit and he lays to his speed | H |
| To the winds of the open his stiffness he throws | B |
| And if spirit were all he'd be up with the lead | I |
| Where the horse that supplants him so easily goes | B |
| No double can daunt him no ditch can deceive | J |
| No bank can beguile him to set a foot wrong | K |
| But the years that have passed him no power can retrieve | J |
| To the swift is their swiftness their strength to the strong | K |
| To the best of us all comes a day and a day | F |
| When the pace of the leaders shall leave us forlorn | L |
| So we'll give him a cheer the old galloping grey | F |
| As he labours along to the lure of the Horn | L |
William Henry Ogilvie
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