The Pilot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK LLMNM| Time was when the sportsman with chivalrous care | A |
| Would find a safe line for his follower fair | A |
| And clearing the double stiff planted and strong | B |
| Would turn in his saddle to cheer her along | B |
| But now we've for pilot a damsel astride | C |
| On a stud book and blood one determined to ride | C |
| With an eye for a country and vowed to the van | D |
| And the slow ones may keep her in sight if they can | D |
| As she lashes along in the wake of the pack | E |
| Not a man need expect her to pause or look back | E |
| And the laggards who ride on her resolute trail | F |
| Need not wait for her cheer over bullfinch or rail | F |
| To those who may follow not hers to give heed | G |
| So long as no rival shall challenge her lead | H |
| If she levels a gap if she smashes a bar | I |
| They may take it or leave it whoever they are | I |
| As she rips at her fences our ears she may shock | J |
| With the' Damn you come up ' of the steeplechase jock | J |
| Should we choose her picked panel avoiding a worse | K |
| We may find ourselves warned with a suitable curse | K |
| Yet later at tea she's all glamour and charm | L |
| Low voiced with a laughter and smile that disarm | L |
| And witched by her grace we forget what we heard | M |
| While we only remember | N |
| she went like a bird | M |
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William Henry Ogilvie
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