On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:

I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
I gallop’d, Dirck gallop’d, we gallop’d all three ...

It rattles on breathlessly like this for 9 more stanzas with the same, relentlessly-rhyming tetrametric iambic sextets!

Opps, clearly anapestic:

I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;

as in:

He SPRANG to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle

or:

This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark
And cold to an orchard so young in the bark

–(yup)Frost, Good-bye, and Keep Cold

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