On A Cattle Track Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCCC ADEDECCC EFCFGHIH AJA KLGL GCMCHNON APIPPPEP| Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill rocks asunder | A |
| And the shouts of the desert wind break | B |
| By the gullies of deepness and ridges of steepness | C |
| Lo the cattle track twists like a snake | B |
| Like a sea of dead embers burnt white by Decembers | C |
| A plain to the left of it lies | C |
| And six fleeting horses dash down the creek courses | C |
| With the terror of thirst in their eyes | C |
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| The false strength of fever that deadly deceiver | A |
| Gives foot to each famishing beast | D |
| And over lands rotten by rain winds forgotten | E |
| The mirage gleams out in the east | D |
| Ah the waters are hidden from riders and ridden | E |
| In a stream where the cattle track dips | C |
| And Death on their faces is scoring fierce traces | C |
| And the drought is a fire on their lips | C |
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| It is far to the station and gaunt Desolation | E |
| Is a spectre that glooms in the way | F |
| Like a red smoke the air is like a hell light its glare is | C |
| And as flame are the feet of the day | F |
| The wastes are like metal that forges unsettle | G |
| When the heat of the furnace is white | H |
| And the cool breeze that bloweth when an English sun goeth | I |
| Is unknown to the wild desert night | H |
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| A cry of distress there a horseman the less there | A |
| The mock waters shine like a moon | J |
| It is 'Speed and speed faster from this hole of disaster | A |
| And hurrah for yon God sent lagoon ' | - |
| Doth a devil deceive them Ah now let us leave them | K |
| We are burdened in life with the sad | L |
| Our portion is trouble our joy is a bubble | G |
| And the gladdest is never too glad | L |
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| From the pale tracts of peril past mountain heads sterile | G |
| To a sweet river shadowed with reeds | C |
| Where Summer steps lightly and Winter beams brightly | M |
| The hoof rutted cattle track leads | C |
| There soft is the moonlight and tender the noon light | H |
| There fiery things falter and fall | N |
| And there may be seen now the gold and the green now | O |
| And the wings of a peace over all | N |
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| Hush bittern and plover Go wind to thy cover | A |
| Away by the snow smitten Pole | P |
| The rotten leaf falleth the forest rain calleth | I |
| And what is the end of the whole | P |
| Some men are successful after seasons distressful | P |
| Now masters the drift of my tale | P |
| But the brink of salvation is a lair of damnation | E |
| For others who struggle yet fail | P |
Henry Kendall
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