After Cattle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDFFGHHGIJKL LKMMNAANOOPQQPRRSPTS UUVRRVWWXYYXQQ

WE lit a fire and straightway campedA
And all night longB
We heard the river sing its songB
Our horses fed and neighed and stampedA
But else o'er allC
A haunted silence seemed to fallC
The gum trees raised their lofty crestsD
So high it seemedE
They mingled with the stars and dreamedE
As when a tired bird sinks and restsD
At end of dayF
Head couched on arm full length we layF
But Nature would not let us sleepG
She loved so wellH
To talk and had such things to tellH
Her fire fly lamps within the deepG
Green gullies shoneI
One moment and the next were goneJ
The smooth white trunks of ancient treesK
In stately prideL
Marched up the rugged mountain sideL
No leaf fell fluttering on the breezeK
But everywhereM
A stillness charmed the midnight airM
And as we lay without a wordN
In silence campedA
Our horses in the darkness stampedA
At first it seemed a timid birdN
Sang soft belowO
And then we listened breathing lowO
We heard elusive strange and shyP
A song ariseQ
The river voicing many criesQ
At first it was a human cryP
Of sad unrestR
Of one cast down and sore distressedR
And then an elfin chant it raisedS
As when men cryP
'We've silks to sell who'll buy who'll buy 'T
And goods were cried and wares were praisedS
It seemed like someU
Far market place in FairydomU
Yet ever through the chorus stoleV
The sore distressedR
Faint human note of sad unrestR
We woke and saw the morning rollV
In waves of goldW
Upon the mountains green and boldW
Birds sang flowers laughed the grass was greenX
The sky aboveY
Bent over arching earth with loveY
And riding through that woodland sceneX
Of rocks and rillsQ
We heard the cattle in the hillsQ

Roderic Quinn



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