The Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CC DD EE FF DD GG HI DD| Reply to Rudyard Kipling s He travels the fastest who travels alone | A |
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| Who travels alone with his eye on the heights | B |
| Though he laughs in the day time oft weeps on the nights | B |
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| For courage goes down at the set of the sun | C |
| When the toil of the journey is all borne by one | C |
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| He speeds but to grief though full gaily he ride | D |
| Who travels alone without love at his side | D |
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| Who travels alone without lover of friend | E |
| But hurries from nothing to naught at the end | E |
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| Though great be his winnings and high be his goal | F |
| He is bankrupt in wisdom and beggared in soul | F |
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| Life s one gift of value to him is denied | D |
| Who travels alone without love at his side | D |
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| It is easy enough in this world to make haste | G |
| If one live for that purpose but think of the waste | G |
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| For life is a poem to leisurely read | H |
| And the joy of the journey lies not in its speed | I |
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| Oh vain his achievement and petty his pride | D |
| Who travels alone without love at his side | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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