The Wanderer Looking Into Other Homes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHIH JKJKLMLM MNMNMMMM OMOMPQPR JSJSITIU VKVWXYXY ZMZMJA2JA2| A LONE wayfaring wretch I saw who stood | A |
| Wearily pausing by the wicket gate | B |
| And from his eyes there streamed a bitter flood | C |
| Contrasting his with many a happier fate | B |
| Bleak howled the wind the sleety shower fell fast | D |
| On his bare head and scanty covered breast | E |
| As through the village with quick step I past | D |
| To find sweet shelter in my home of rest | E |
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| 'Oh that I too could call a home my own ' | - |
| Said the lone wanderer as he wistful gazed | F |
| Through the clear lattice on the hearth's wide stone | G |
| Where cheerily the jocund fire blazed | F |
| 'Oh that I too in such a cot might dwell | H |
| Where the bright homefire blazeth clear and high | I |
| Where joy alone my grateful heart might swell | H |
| And children's children bless me when I die ' | - |
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| Little he deemed what bitterness was there | J |
| Who murmured thus his aspirations vain | K |
| Little he deemed that one as fond as fair | J |
| Lay faintly sighing on a bed of pain | K |
| And by her side a restless vigil keeping | L |
| One who had deeply wronged that gentle heart | M |
| Knelt with clasped hands now praying and now weeping | L |
| Dreading each hour to see the soul depart | M |
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| They were two sisters jealous love had twained | M |
| And one had slandered he who faded lay | N |
| Because she deemed her slighted love disdained | M |
| And he they both had loved was far away | N |
| And from that hour the younger drooped and pined | M |
| Like a pale snowdrop bowing down her head | M |
| Joyless of life to slow disease resigned | M |
| The heart within her was already dead | M |
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| Here for her sake they woo the mountain gale | O |
| If haply change may yet prevent her fate | M |
| But he the wanderer knew not of this tale | O |
| And humbly sues admittance at their gate | M |
| He enters what hath met his eager eyes | P |
| Pale as the white fringed drapery spread beneath | Q |
| His early loved his sorely slandered lies | P |
| Heaving with pain her faint and quickened breath | R |
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| O'er her soft arm her long dark glossy hair | J |
| Floats in unbraided beauty and her cheek | S |
| Ah me the deeply crimsoned tinge is there | J |
| That of sharp woe and early death doth speak | S |
| How beautiful beneath her drooping eye | I |
| The glowing hectic of that cheek appears | T |
| Where the long lashes like soft shadows lie | I |
| Seeking in vain to prison back her tears | U |
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| She gazes shrieks 'tis he at length 'tis he | V |
| Whom dreams and waking thoughts have brought in vain | K |
| And must she die e'er yet from sorrow free | V |
| Her head hath rested on his heart again | W |
| A few slow bitter words of wild appeal | X |
| Of earnest explanation faintly given | Y |
| A pressure which his hand can scarcely feel | X |
| And her freed soul is on its way to heaven | Y |
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| So wanderers in the world may pausing gaze | Z |
| Upon some radiant form with smiles of light | M |
| And seeing but the outward beam that plays | Z |
| Envy their joys and deem that all is bright | M |
| The homes of other hearts oh yet beware | J |
| Ye who with friendly guise would enter in | A2 |
| Lest all be false and ye be doomed to share | J |
| Their guilt or woe their sadness or their sin | A2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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