The Silent Wheel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD E FFGGHHGIIJJ KKDDHHDEELL MMNNOONPPQQ KKRRLLRSSHH TTKKUUKVVEE| From Arthur Selwyn's Note book | A |
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| Through these broad streets do I fly | B |
| Furlongs and miles I defy | B |
| Till the magnificent distance | C |
| Vanishes out of existence | C |
| Let me with pencil prolong | D |
| Strains of the Bicycler's Song | D |
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| The Silent Wheel | E |
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| Good morning good Pedestrian I'm glad to see you out | F |
| The day is full of healthfulness the birds are all about | F |
| There is a quiet breeziness in all the pleasant air | G |
| I hope this happy exercise will drive away your care | G |
| For I am a pedestrian | H |
| A very good pedestrian | H |
| And all the glowing benefit of walking I can share | G |
| Although I tread the atmosphere and do not touch the ground | I |
| I greet you as a brother sir wherever you are bound | I |
| But my impatient lady love in yonder town doth wait | J |
| I wish you better company and strike a swifter gait | J |
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| Good morning good Equestrian a noble steed you ride | K |
| I do not seem to frighten him so here is by your side | K |
| It is a feast of happiness to smoothly bound along | D |
| With sturdy muscles under you and footing swift and strong | D |
| For I am an equestrian | H |
| A very fair equestrian | H |
| With bugle blast of melody and unassuming song | D |
| And all the thrilling ecstacy of horsemanship I feel | E |
| Although the nag I ride upon was bred of burnished steel | E |
| But his impatience urges me to swifter gait than you | L |
| And so I wish you pleasure sir and bid a kind adieu | L |
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| Good morning Mr Racer you've a trotter that is fine | M |
| I never would disparage him or say too much of mine | M |
| Your horse is full of mettle sir and bravely draws his load | N |
| It must be pure deliciousness to speed him on the road | N |
| But I am quite a racing man | O |
| A modest humble racing man | O |
| Though small is my solicitude upon the turf bestowed | N |
| And if you have anxiety to try a little race | P |
| I'll undertake with courtesy to give you second place | P |
| But if the first you take from me and it be fairly earned | Q |
| I'll hope that on some future day the tables may be turned | Q |
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| Good morning Mr Carriageer you have an easy ride | K |
| Those cushions are luxurious and pleasantly you glide | K |
| 'Tis very good and fortunate if one be tired or ill | R |
| To calmly call his carriage out and travel as he will | R |
| But I sir keep my carriage too | L |
| A very pleasant carriage too | L |
| Though it is not the easy one that your desire would fill | R |
| It carries me in comfort over many a pleasant mile | S |
| And all my best acquaintances are suited with its style | S |
| 'Tis with a blithe economy establishments are run | H |
| With driver footman passenger and horses all in one | H |
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| Good morning fellow Wheelmen here's a warm fraternal hand | T |
| As with a rush of victory we sweep across the land | T |
| If some may be dissatisfied to view the way we ride | K |
| We only wish their majesties could wander by our side | K |
| For we are good philanthropists | U |
| Unqualified philanthropists | U |
| And would not have our happiness to any one denied | K |
| We claim a great utility that daily must increase | V |
| We claim for inactivity a bright and grand release | V |
| A constant mental physical and moral help we feel | E |
| Which makes us turn enthusiasts and bless the silent wheel | E |
William Mckendree Carleton
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