After Cattle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDFFGHHGIJKL LKMMNAANOOPQQPRRSPTS UUVRRVWWXYYXQQWE lit a fire and straightway camped | A |
And all night long | B |
We heard the river sing its song | B |
Our horses fed and neighed and stamped | A |
But else o'er all | C |
A haunted silence seemed to fall | C |
The gum trees raised their lofty crests | D |
So high it seemed | E |
They mingled with the stars and dreamed | E |
As when a tired bird sinks and rests | D |
At end of day | F |
Head couched on arm full length we lay | F |
But Nature would not let us sleep | G |
She loved so well | H |
To talk and had such things to tell | H |
Her fire fly lamps within the deep | G |
Green gullies shone | I |
One moment and the next were gone | J |
The smooth white trunks of ancient trees | K |
In stately pride | L |
Marched up the rugged mountain side | L |
No leaf fell fluttering on the breeze | K |
But everywhere | M |
A stillness charmed the midnight air | M |
And as we lay without a word | N |
In silence camped | A |
Our horses in the darkness stamped | A |
At first it seemed a timid bird | N |
Sang soft below | O |
And then we listened breathing low | O |
We heard elusive strange and shy | P |
A song arise | Q |
The river voicing many cries | Q |
At first it was a human cry | P |
Of sad unrest | R |
Of one cast down and sore distressed | R |
And then an elfin chant it raised | S |
As when men cry | P |
'We've silks to sell who'll buy who'll buy ' | T |
And goods were cried and wares were praised | S |
It seemed like some | U |
Far market place in Fairydom | U |
Yet ever through the chorus stole | V |
The sore distressed | R |
Faint human note of sad unrest | R |
We woke and saw the morning roll | V |
In waves of gold | W |
Upon the mountains green and bold | W |
Birds sang flowers laughed the grass was green | X |
The sky above | Y |
Bent over arching earth with love | Y |
And riding through that woodland scene | X |
Of rocks and rills | Q |
We heard the cattle in the hills | Q |
Roderic Quinn
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