Drovers Twain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBEFGGGFHIJJJIKL MMMNOPQQQPRSTTUSVBDD DBWXYYYXDFCCDFWHERE was no shadow on the land | A |
No cloud in heaven's dome | B |
When bearded man and beardless boy | C |
Our hearts alight with morning joy | C |
Across the hills of Duckmaloi | D |
We drove the cattle home | B |
The sunrays danced a merry jig | E |
On grass and bracken brown | F |
And right and left and left and right | G |
The magpies piped in sheer delight | G |
As over creekside flat and height | G |
We drove the cattle down | F |
With fiery eyes and tossing horns | H |
And swaying sides and hips | I |
They moved red hides and hides of black | J |
And ever as they left the track | J |
We wheeled and held and drove them back | J |
With shouts and cracking whips | I |
There is no joy in all the world | K |
Of such a bloom and blush | L |
As that the charging rider feels | M |
When at some frenzied scrubber's heels | M |
His stockwhip making curves and wheels | M |
He thunders through the bush | N |
Knees gripping hard he dashes on | O |
The swift wind in his hair | P |
Whate'er befall whate'er betide | Q |
All thought of peril thrust aside | Q |
He feels the glory and the pride | Q |
Of those who finely dare | P |
The moving mob was mountain reared | R |
And mountain bred and born | S |
Their hides of brand and marking clear | T |
As shy as deer as swift as deer | T |
Who over heath and highland hear | U |
The huntsman's early horn | S |
And yet with dog and spur and whip | V |
Our horses flaked with foam | B |
The magpies singing all the while | D |
Through hour and hour and mile and mile | D |
For all their speed of hoof and guile | D |
We brought the cattle home | B |
A score of years has passed away | W |
Slow filing on since then | X |
And Time who knows no sparing ruth | Y |
And Wisdom armed with bitter truth | Y |
Have tamed the heart of reckless youth | Y |
And greyed the beards of men | X |
Yet evermore when cattle low | D |
Across the bracken brown | F |
I see again that man and boy | C |
As when alight with morning joy | C |
Across the hills of Duckmaloi | D |
They drove the cattle down | F |
Roderic Quinn
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