The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CDEC FCCF GHHG IJJJ KLLK MJJM NJJO IJJI PJJP QRRQ STTS UJJUTo see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so | A |
Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves | B |
Back of old storied spires and architraves | B |
To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut | C |
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And roused by street cries in strange tongues when day | C |
Flooded with gold some domed metropolis | D |
Between new towers to waken and new bliss | E |
Spread on his pillow in a wondrous way | C |
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These were his joys Oft under bulging crates | F |
Coming to market with his morning load | C |
The peasant found him early on his road | C |
To greet the sunrise at the city gates | F |
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There where the meadows waken in its rays | G |
Golden with mist and the great roads commence | H |
And backward where the chimney tops are dense | H |
Cathedral arches glimmer through the haze | G |
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White dunes that breaking show a strip of sea | I |
A plowman and his team against the blue | J |
Swiss pastures musical with cowbells too | J |
And poplar lined canals in Picardie | J |
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And coast towns where the vultures back and forth | K |
Sail in the clear depths of the tropic sky | L |
And swallows in the sunset where they fly | L |
Over gray Gothic cities in the north | K |
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And the wine cellar and the chorus there | M |
The dance hall and a face among the crowd | J |
Were all delights that made him sing aloud | J |
For joy to sojourn in a world so fair | M |
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Back of his footsteps as he journeyed fell | N |
Range after range ahead blue hills emerged | J |
Before him tireless to applaud it surged | J |
The sweet interminable spectacle | O |
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And like the west behind a sundown sea | I |
Shone the past joys his memory retraced | J |
And bright as the blue east he always faced | J |
Beckoned the loves and joys that were to be | I |
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From every branch a blossom for his brow | P |
He gathered singing down Life's flower lined road | J |
And youth impelled his spirit as he strode | J |
Like winged Victory on the galley's prow | P |
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That Loveliness whose being sun and star | Q |
Green Earth and dawn and amber evening robe | R |
That lamp whereof the opalescent globe | R |
The season's emulative splendors are | Q |
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That veiled divinity whose beams transpire | S |
From every pore of universal space | T |
As the fair soul illumes the lovely face | T |
That was his guest his passion his desire | S |
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His heart the love of Beauty held as hides | U |
One gem most pure a casket of pure gold | J |
It was too rich a lesser thing to hold | J |
It was not large enough for aught besides | U |
Alan Seeger
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