The Veteran Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| He asks no favour from the Field no forward place demands | A |
| Save what he claims by fearless heart and light and dainty hands | A |
| No man need make a way for him at ditch or gap or gate | B |
| He rides on level terms with all if not at equal weight | B |
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| His eyes are somewhat dimmer than they were in days of yore | C |
| A blind fence now might trap him where it never trapped before | C |
| But when the rails stand clean and high the walls stand big and bare | D |
| There's no man rides so boldly as there's no man rides so fair | D |
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| There is no other in the Field so truly loved as he | E |
| We better like to see him out than any younger three | E |
| And yet one horseman day by day rides jealous at his rein | F |
| Old Time that smarts beneath the whip of fifty years' disdain | F |
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| He crowds him at his fences for he envies his renown | G |
| Some day he'll Cross him at a leap and bring a good man down | G |
| And Time will take a long revenge for years of laughing scorn | H |
| And fold the faded scarlet that was ne'er more nobly worn | H |
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| Here's luck Oh good grey sportsman May Time be long defied | I |
| By careful seat and Cunning hand and health and heart to ride | I |
| And when that direful day be come that surely shall befall | J |
| We'll know you still unbeaten save by Time that beats us all | J |
William Henry Ogilvie
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