The Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJDE DBKLDMDN DODP DQRBBGST DUAV| Come away come away there's a frost along the marshes | A |
| And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it shakes the dead black water | B |
| There's a moan across the lowland and a wailing through the woodland | C |
| Of a dirge that sings to send us back to the arms of those that love us | D |
| There is nothing left but ashes now where the crimson chills of autumn | E |
| Put off the summer's languor with a touch that made us glad | F |
| For the glory that is gone from us with a flight we cannot follow | G |
| To the slopes of other valleys and the sounds of other shores | H |
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| Come away come away you can hear them calling calling | I |
| Calling us to come to them and roam no more | J |
| Over there beyond the ridges and the land that lies between us | D |
| There's an old song calling us to come | E |
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| Come away come away for the scenes we leave behind us | D |
| Are barren for the lights of home and a flame that's young forever | B |
| And the lonely trees around us creak the warning of the night wind | K |
| That love and all the dreams of love are away beyond the mountains | L |
| The songs that call for us to night they have called for men before us | D |
| And the winds that blow the message they have blown ten thousand years | M |
| But this will end our wander time for we know the joy that waits us | D |
| In the strangeness of home coming and a faithful woman's eyes | N |
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| Come away come away there is nothing now to cheer us | D |
| Nothing now to comfort us but love's road home | O |
| Over there beyond the darkness there's a window gleams to greet us | D |
| And a warm hearth waits for us within | P |
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| Come away come away or the roving fiend will hold us | D |
| And make us all to dwell with him to the end of human faring | Q |
| There are no men yet can leave him when his hands are clutched upon them | R |
| There are none will own his enmity there are none will call him brother | B |
| So we'll be up and on the way and the less we brag the better | B |
| For the freedom that God gave us and the dread we do not know | G |
| The frost that skips the willow leaf will again be back to blight it | S |
| And the doom we cannot fly from is the doom we do not see | T |
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| Come away come away there are dead men all around us | D |
| Frozen men that mock us with a wild hard laugh | U |
| That shrieks and sinks and whimpers in the shrill November rushes | A |
| And the long fall wind on the lake | V |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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