Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIIIIII KIKIIILL MNONPQAR| ON his morning rounds the Master | A |
| Goes to learn how all things fare | B |
| Searches pasture after pasture | A |
| Sheep and cattle eyes with care | B |
| And for silence or for talk | C |
| He hath comrades in his walk | C |
| Four dogs each pair of different breed | D |
| Distinguished two for scent and two for speed | D |
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| See a hare before him started | E |
| Off they fly in earnest chase | F |
| Every dog is eager hearted | E |
| All the four are in the race | F |
| And the hare whom they pursue | G |
| Knows from instinct what to do | G |
| Her hope is near no turn she makes | H |
| But like an arrow to the river takes | H |
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| Deep the river was and crusted | I |
| Thinly by a one night's frost | J |
| But the nimble Hare hath trusted | I |
| To the ice and safely crost | I |
| She hath crost and without heed | I |
| All are following at full speed | I |
| When lo the ice so thinly spread | I |
| Breaks and the greyhound DART is overhead | I |
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| Better fate have PRINCE and SWALLOW | K |
| See them cleaving to the sport | I |
| MUSIC has no heart to follow | K |
| Little MUSIC she stops short | I |
| She hath neither wish nor heart | I |
| Hers is now another part | I |
| A loving creature she and brave | L |
| And fondly strives her struggling friend to save | L |
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| From the brink her paws she stretches | M |
| Very hands as you would say | N |
| And afflicting moans she fetches | O |
| As he breaks the ice away | N |
| For herself she hath no fears | P |
| Him alone she sees and hears | Q |
| Makes efforts with complainings nor gives o'er | A |
| Until her fellow sinks to re appear no more | R |
William Wordsworth
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