The Pearl Of Them All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHCEJE KLGLFEGE HMNMOPCPQRSTUEGE CVWVXEHE| Gaily in front of the stockwhip | A |
| The horses come galloping home | B |
| Leaping and bucking and playing | C |
| With sides all a lather of foam | B |
| But painfully slowly behind them | D |
| With head to the crack of the fall | E |
| And trying so gamely to follow | F |
| Comes limping the pearl of them all | E |
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| He is stumbling and stiff in the shoulder | G |
| And splints from the hoof to the knee | H |
| But never a horse on the station | I |
| Has half such a spirit as he | H |
| Give these all the boast of their breeding | C |
| These pets of the paddock and stall | E |
| But ten years ago not their proudest | J |
| Could live with the pearl of them all | E |
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| No journey has ever yet beat him | K |
| No day was too heavy or hard | L |
| He was king of the camp and the muster | G |
| And pride of the wings of the yard | L |
| But Time is relentless to follow | F |
| The best of us bow to his thrall | E |
| And death with his scythe on his shoulder | G |
| Is dogging the pearl of them all | E |
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| I watch him go whinnying past me | H |
| And memories come with a whirl | M |
| Of reckless wild rides with a comrade | N |
| And laughing gay rides with a girl | M |
| How she decked him with lilies and love knots | O |
| And plaited his mane at my side | P |
| And once in the grief of a parting | C |
| She threw her arms round him and cried | P |
| And I promised I gave her my promise | Q |
| The night that we parted in tears | R |
| To keep and be kind to the old horse | S |
| Till Time made a burden of years | T |
| And then for his sake and one woman s | U |
| So fetch me my gun from the wall | E |
| I have only this kindness to offer | G |
| As gift to the pearl of them all | E |
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| Here hold him out there by the yard wing | C |
| And don t let him know by a sign | V |
| Turn his head to you ever so little | W |
| I can t bear his eyes to meet mine | V |
| Then stand still old boy for a moment | X |
| These tears how they blind as they fall | E |
| Now God help my hand to be steady | H |
| Good bye to the pearl of them all | E |
William Henry Ogilvie
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