The Drover Of The Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHBHIHHHJHHH KLMLNOBOHHPHQBLB| IT is little I care for earth's kings | A |
| Its emperors sultans and czars | B |
| As I lie in the darkness and dream | C |
| All alone with my sheep and the stars | B |
| For as dust of the moment are they | D |
| Now agleam and now still on earth's breast | E |
| But the stars spreading wide in the night | F |
| Travel on ever on to the west | E |
| My sheep snugly camped in the dark | G |
| Misty white with the pale grasses blend | H |
| But where is the camp of the stars | B |
| And whither O Night do they wend | H |
| Through leagues of dry distance we came | I |
| Where dust wreaths wind woven upcurled | H |
| Since Dawn dropped the rails of the east | H |
| And let the Day into our world | H |
| Slow moving we travelled the plains | J |
| Trudging on through the sun and the wind | H |
| Till Day galloped out of the west | H |
| And Night set the sliprails behind | H |
| And now by my camp fire alone | K |
| A tryst with pale Wonder I keep | L |
| That mystical Lady of Dreams | M |
| Whose hour is the sleep of the sheep | L |
| Foot tired in the grasses they lie | N |
| Mist pale in the darkness and dumb | O |
| Yet who was it mustered the stars | B |
| And whence and what leagues have they come | O |
| Who keeps them from straying apart | H |
| Who urges them straight on their route | H |
| No answer none tell me and lo | P |
| The Night though it listen is mute | H |
| Watch 'neath the stars of the Cross | Q |
| Orion and Venus and Mars | B |
| I am but a drover of sheep | L |
| But who is the Drover of Stars | B |
Roderic Quinn
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