Lost Shepherd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJAJAJ KLKLMNMN OAOAPHPH| Ah me How hard is destiny | A |
| If we could only know | B |
| I bought my son from Sicily | A |
| A score of years ago | B |
| I haled him from our sunny vale | C |
| To streets of din and squalor | D |
| And left it to professors pale | C |
| To make of him a scholar | D |
| - | |
| Had he remained a peasant lad | E |
| A shepherd on the hill | F |
| like golden faun in goatskin clad | E |
| He might be singing still | F |
| He would have made the flock his care | G |
| And lept with gay reliance | H |
| On thymy heights unwitting there | G |
| Was such a thing as science | H |
| - | |
| He would have crooned to his guitar | I |
| Draughts of chianti drinking | J |
| A better destiny by far | I |
| Than reading writing thinking | J |
| So bent above his books was he | A |
| His thirst for knowledge slaking | J |
| He did not realize that we | A |
| Are worm food in the making | J |
| - | |
| Ambition got him in its grip | K |
| And inched him to his doom | L |
| Fate granted him a fellowship | K |
| Then graved for him a tomb | L |
| Beneath my feet I can't allow | M |
| The grass to grow he said | N |
| And toiled so tirelessly that now | M |
| It grows above his head | N |
| - | |
| His honour scrolls shall feed the flame | O |
| They mean no more to me | A |
| His ashes I with bitter blame | O |
| Will take to Sicily | A |
| And there I'll weep with heart bereft | P |
| By groves and sunny rills | H |
| And wish my laughing boy I'd left | P |
| A shepherd on the hills | H |
Robert Service
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