The Wildy Ones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEDEBFBF AGHGFIFI FJFJKLKL| The sheep are in the silver wood | A |
| The cows are in the broom | B |
| The goats are in the wild mountain | C |
| And won't be home by noon | D |
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| My mother sang that olden tune | D |
| Most every night | E |
| And to her newest she would croon | D |
| By candle light | E |
| While cuddling in the velvet gloom | B |
| I'd dream of cows | F |
| That sought each dawn 'mid golden broom | B |
| To gently browse | F |
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| Or I would glimpse the silver wood | A |
| The birchen glade | G |
| Where pearly sheep in quiet mood | H |
| Cropped unafraid | G |
| But how I loved in lapsing drowse | F |
| The mountain wild | I |
| The goats were more than sheep and cows | F |
| To one wee child | I |
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| For cows and sheep are shelter wise | F |
| And love the lea | J |
| While goats have starlight in their eyes | F |
| In cragland free | J |
| And now on edge of endless sleep | K |
| Wryly I note | L |
| How less I'm kin to kine and sheep | K |
| Than rebel goat | L |
Robert Service
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