After Cattle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDFFGHHGIJKL LKMMNAANOOPQQPRRSPTS UUVRRVWWXYYXQQ| WE 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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