Drovers Twain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBEFGGGFHIJJJIKL MMMNOPQQQPRSTTUSVBDD DBWXYYYXDFCCDF

WHERE was no shadow on the landA
No cloud in heaven's domeB
When bearded man and beardless boyC
Our hearts alight with morning joyC
Across the hills of DuckmaloiD
We drove the cattle homeB
The sunrays danced a merry jigE
On grass and bracken brownF
And right and left and left and rightG
The magpies piped in sheer delightG
As over creekside flat and heightG
We drove the cattle downF
With fiery eyes and tossing hornsH
And swaying sides and hipsI
They moved red hides and hides of blackJ
And ever as they left the trackJ
We wheeled and held and drove them backJ
With shouts and cracking whipsI
There is no joy in all the worldK
Of such a bloom and blushL
As that the charging rider feelsM
When at some frenzied scrubber's heelsM
His stockwhip making curves and wheelsM
He thunders through the bushN
Knees gripping hard he dashes onO
The swift wind in his hairP
Whate'er befall whate'er betideQ
All thought of peril thrust asideQ
He feels the glory and the prideQ
Of those who finely dareP
The moving mob was mountain rearedR
And mountain bred and bornS
Their hides of brand and marking clearT
As shy as deer as swift as deerT
Who over heath and highland hearU
The huntsman's early hornS
And yet with dog and spur and whipV
Our horses flaked with foamB
The magpies singing all the whileD
Through hour and hour and mile and mileD
For all their speed of hoof and guileD
We brought the cattle homeB
A score of years has passed awayW
Slow filing on since thenX
And Time who knows no sparing ruthY
And Wisdom armed with bitter truthY
Have tamed the heart of reckless youthY
And greyed the beards of menX
Yet evermore when cattle lowD
Across the bracken brownF
I see again that man and boyC
As when alight with morning joyC
Across the hills of DuckmaloiD
They drove the cattle downF

Roderic Quinn



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