The Herd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEEIJKKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXYZ| The roaming sheep forbidden to roam far | A |
| Were stayed within the shadow of his eye | B |
| The sheep dog on that unseen shadow's edge | C |
| Moved halted barked while the tall shepherd stood | D |
| Unmoving leaned upon a sarsen stone | E |
| Looking at the rain that curtained the bare hills | F |
| And drew the smoking curtain near and near | G |
| Tawny bush faced with cloak and staff and flask | H |
| And bright brass ribb'd umbrella standing stone | E |
| Against the veinless senseless sarsen stone | E |
| The Roman Road hard by the green Ridge Way | I |
| Not older seemed nor calmer the long barrows | J |
| Of bones and memories of ancient days | K |
| Than the tall shepherd with his craft of days | K |
| Older than Roman or the oldest caveman | L |
| When in the generation of all living | M |
| Sheep and kine flocked in the Aryan valley and | N |
| The first herd with his voice and skill of water | O |
| Fleetest of foot led them into green pastures | P |
| From perished pastures to new green I saw | Q |
| The herdsmen everywhere about the world | R |
| And herdsmen of all time fierce lonely wise | S |
| Herds of Arabia and Syria | T |
| And Thessaly and longer winter'd climes | U |
| And this lone herd ages before England was | V |
| Pelt clad and armed with flint tipped ashen sap | W |
| Watching his flocks and those far flocks of stars | X |
| Slow moving as the heavenly shepherd willed | Y |
| And at dawn shut into the sunny fold | Z |
John Frederick Freeman
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