The Last Fence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDFGHIAJKJLBCB MNONOPQPRSTI| When the last fence looms up I am ready | A |
| And I hope when the rails of it crack | B |
| There'll be nothing in front but the Master | C |
| The huntsman the fox and the pack | B |
| And I hope when fate bids me go under | C |
| In this last of my manifold spills | D |
| That we're riding the line of a hill fox | E |
| With half a mile start to his hills | D |
| I hope that last fence is a stiff one | F |
| I hope for the sake of our name | G |
| They may say ' If the task was beyond them | H |
| They both of them went at it game ' | I |
| And when the white girths flash above me | A |
| And darkness comes down on the field | J |
| Let them carry me home on a hurdle | K |
| As the Spartan went home on his shield | J |
| And when I am out of the running | L |
| Let the good men go on with the pack | B |
| I would not one comrade should falter | C |
| I would not one friend should turn back | B |
| And whether it be on the grass land | M |
| The hill side the heath or the loam | N |
| Let the gallant ones keep going for'ard | O |
| The slow ones can carry me home | N |
| Let them bury me down in the churchyard | O |
| But lay my good horse where he fell | P |
| When the ditches are blind in the autumn | Q |
| Some friend may remember and tell | P |
| While under the thong of the west wind | R |
| The day nettle trembles and stirs | S |
| 'Twas from here that a horseman undaunted | T |
| Went Home in his boots and his spurs ' | I |
William Henry Ogilvie
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