The True Sportsman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNN| The real ones the right ones the straight ones and the true | A |
| The pukka peerless sportsmen their numbers are but few | A |
| The men who keep on playing though the sun be in eclipse | B |
| The men who go on losing with a laugh upon their lips | B |
| The men who care but little for the laurels of renown | C |
| The men who turn their horses back to help the man that's down | C |
| The fearless and the friendly ones the courtly and the kind | D |
| The men whose lion courage is with gentleness combined | D |
| My notion of a sportsman I'll try then to define | E |
| For preference well bred of course of some clean living line | E |
| With pride of place and ancestry whose service was the King's | F |
| With all a noble knight's contempt for low left handed things | F |
| Not the good sport' who burdens us with cheap and futile chat | G |
| Of the 'pedigree' of this one and the outside chance' of that | G |
| But a man who loves good horses just to handle them and ride | H |
| Where the fences call to valour and the English grass lies wide | H |
| All the best and truest sportsmen I have lived with and have known | I |
| Have a changeless faith within them which their simple hearts enthrone | I |
| Believing in the God that made the green fields passing fair | J |
| The God that gave good courage and to every man his share | J |
| And all the truest sportsmen I have met have had this gift | K |
| A love of all the classic books that lighten and uplift | K |
| And all have loved red woodlands swift birds and coloured flowers | L |
| And all have played with children and counted not the hours | L |
| And I think when God has gathered all the men that He has made | M |
| The perfect British sportsman may stand forward unafraid | M |
| For brave and kind and courtly and clean of heart and hand | N |
| No life than his seems nearer to the life our Maker planned | N |
William Henry Ogilvie
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