When The Sun's Behind The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDAEAEFFFDGGGG HHHDAIAJJJDKLKLKKKDA MAMNNJDThere's a soft and peaceful feeling | A |
Comes across the farming hand | B |
As the shadows go a stealing | A |
Slow along the new turned land | B |
The lazy curling smoke above the thatch is showing blue | C |
And the weary old plough horses wander homeward two 'n' two | C |
With their chains a'clinkin' clankin' when their daily toil is through | C |
And the sun's behind the hill | D |
Then it's slowly homeward plodding | A |
As the night begins to creep | E |
And the barley grass is nodding | A |
To the daisies all asleep | E |
The crows are flying heavily and cawing overhead | F |
The sleepy milking cows are lowing sof'ly in the shed | F |
And above them in the rafters all the fowls have gone to bed | F |
When the sun's behind the hill | D |
Then it's 'Harry feed old Roaney ' | G |
And it's 'Bill put up the rail ' | G |
And it's 'Tom turn out the pony ' | G |
'Mary hurry with the pail ' | G |
And the kiddies run to meet us and are begging for a ride | H |
On the broad old 'Prince' and 'Darkey' they can hardly sit astride | H |
And mother she is bustling with the supper things inside | H |
When the sun's behind the hill | D |
Then it's sitting down and yarning | A |
When we've had our bite and sup | I |
And the mother takes her darning | A |
And Bess tells how the baldy cow got tangled in the wire | J |
And Katie keeps the baby boy from tumbling in the fire | J |
And the baccy smoke goes curling as I suck my soothing briar | J |
When the sun's behind the hill | D |
And we talk about the season | K |
And of how it's turning out | L |
And we try to guess the reason | K |
For the long continued drought | L |
Oh a farmer's life ain't roses and his work is never done | K |
And a job's no sooner over than another is begun | K |
For he's toiling late and early from the rising of the sun | K |
Till he sinks behind the hill | D |
But it grows that peaceful feeling | A |
While I'm sitting smoking there | M |
And the kiddies all are kneeling | A |
To repeat their ev'ning prayer | M |
For it seems somehow to lighten all the care that must be bore | N |
When the things of life are worrying and times are troubling sore | N |
And I pray that God will keep them when my own long day is o'er | J |
And the sun's behind the hill | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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