The Shepherd Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDEFGGF HHIIJBJBK GGK GLGMMLFFNNOOPQQP| WHEN the red moon hangs over the fold | A |
| And the cypress shadow is rimmed with gold | A |
| O little sheep I have laid me low | B |
| My face against the old earth's face | C |
| Where one by one the white moths go | B |
| And the brown bee has his sleeping place | C |
| And then I have whispered Mother hear | D |
| For the owls are awake and the night is near | E |
| And whether I lay me near or far | F |
| No lip shall kiss me | G |
| No eye shall miss me | G |
| Saving the eye of a cold white star | F |
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| And the old brown woman answers mild | H |
| Rest you safe on my heart O child | H |
| Many a shepherd many a king | I |
| I fold them safe from their sorrowing | I |
| Gwenever's heart is bound with dust | J |
| Tristram dreams of the dappled doe | B |
| But the bugle moulders the blade is rust | J |
| Stilled are the trumpets of Jericho | B |
| And the tired men sleep by the walls of Troy | K |
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| Little and lonely | G |
| Knowing me only | G |
| Shall I not comfort you shepherd boy | K |
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| When the wind wakes in the apple tree | G |
| And the shy hare feeds on the wild fern stem | L |
| I say my prayers to the Trinity | G |
| The prayers that are three and the charms that are seven | M |
| To the angels guarding the towers of heaven | M |
| And I lay my head on her raiment's hem | L |
| Where the young grass darkens the strawberry star | F |
| Where the iris buds and the bellworts are | F |
| All night I hear her breath go by | N |
| Under the arch of the empty sky | N |
| All night her heart beats under my head | O |
| And I lie as still as the ancient dead | O |
| Warm as the young lambs there with the sheep | P |
| I and no other | Q |
| Close to my Mother | Q |
| Fold my hands in her hands and sleep | P |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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