El Extraviado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LGLG| Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind | A |
| I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled | B |
| Leave the familiar gardens and visited fields behind | A |
| To follow a cloud in the east rose flushed on the rim of the world | B |
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| I have strayed from the trodden highway for walking with upturned eyes | C |
| On the way of the wind in the treetops and the drift of the tinted rack | D |
| For the will to be losing no wonder of sunny or starlit skies | C |
| I have chosen the sod for my pillow and a threadbare coat for my back | D |
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| Evening of ample horizons opaline delicate pure | E |
| Shadow of clouds on green valleys trailed over meadows and trees | F |
| Cities of ardent adventure where the harvests of Joy mature | E |
| Forests whose murmuring voices are amorous prophecies | F |
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| World of romance and profusion still round my journey spread | G |
| The glamours the glints the enthralments the nurture of one whose feet | H |
| From hours unblessed by beauty nor lighted by love have fled | G |
| As the shade of the tomb on his pathway and the scent of the winding sheet | H |
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| I never could rest from roving nor put from my heart this need | I |
| To be seeing how lovably Nature in flower and face hath wrought | J |
| In flower and meadow and mountain and heaven where the white clouds breed | I |
| And the cunning of silken meshes where the heart's desire lies caught | K |
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| Over the azure expanses on the offshore breezes borne | L |
| I have sailed as a butterfly sails nor recked where the impulse led | G |
| Sufficed with the sunshine and freedom the warmth and the summer morn | L |
| The infinite glory surrounding the infinite blue ahead | G |
Alan Seeger
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