The Music Of The Chase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEDEFEFGGHIIH JKJKEELMHLENENOOPQQP| I don't know any tune from any other | A |
| I couldn't sing a song if I were paid | B |
| I couldn't for the ransom of a brother | A |
| Hum a single thing that anybody played | B |
| But I know one melody | C |
| That can stir the heart of me | C |
| It's the mad and merry challenge of the horn | D |
| With the chime of hounds that follow | E |
| And the cheer and rate and holloa | E |
| That can shake the very dewdrops from the thorn | D |
| I couldn't make a fortune with a fiddle | E |
| I scarce can sing a psalm tune in a pew | F |
| I couldn't lead a partner 'down the middle' | E |
| With a more than sporting chance of getting through | F |
| I couldn't for my life | G |
| Play a cornet or a fife | G |
| And the flute was never any friend of mine | H |
| But I do appreciate | I |
| When a yokel on a gate | I |
| Gives a holloa that can hold us to the line | H |
| For everything is music when you hunt | J |
| From the guttural ' Gar'r' on there ' of the Whip | K |
| To the' Tally ho ' of some one up in front | J |
| Or the holloa of a herdsman in the dip | K |
| The crash of post and rail | E |
| In a sort of running scale | E |
| The thunder as the gallopers go by | L |
| The ringing' For'ard on ' | M |
| That is swallowed up anon | H |
| In the chorus of the pack against the sky | L |
| So let others swear by Melba if they will | E |
| By Crossley Tetrazzini and the rest | N |
| I 'll be happy if I hear upon the hill | E |
| The voices of the ladies I love best | N |
| The voices of a pack | O |
| Running hot upon his track | O |
| And the cheer of one that saw the way he went | P |
| When they hustle him along | Q |
| Is there any grander song | Q |
| Than the song of sixteen couple on a scent | P |
William Henry Ogilvie
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