slow-ambling

Updated: June 1, 2025

In that rhapsody of the marsh there is no recognizable metrical scheme, in spite of the plainly marked rhythm, but in the following symbolic sketch the imitation of the horse's ambling introduces an element of regular metre: "Ambling, ambling round the ring, Round the ring of daily duty, Leap, Circus-rider, man, through the paper hoop of death, Ah, lightest thou, beyond death, on this same slow-ambling, padded horse of life."

Bliss Perry - A Study of Poetry