The Wanderer From The Fold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KFKF LMLM NONO PQRQ STST UFUF| How few of all the hearts that loved | A |
| Are grieving for thee now | B |
| And why should mine to night be moved | C |
| With such a sense of woe | D |
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| Too often thus when left alone | E |
| Where none my thoughts can see | F |
| Comes back a word a passing tone | E |
| From thy strange history | F |
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| Sometimes I seem to see thee rise | G |
| A glorious child again | H |
| All virtues beaming from thine eyes | G |
| That ever honoured men | H |
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| Courage and truth a generous breast | I |
| Where sinless sunshine lay | J |
| A being whose very presence blest | I |
| Like gladsome summer day | J |
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| O fairly spread thy early sail | K |
| And fresh and pure and free | F |
| Was the first impulse of the gale | K |
| Which urged life's wave for thee | F |
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| Why did the pilot too confiding | L |
| Dream o'er that ocean's foam | M |
| And trust in Pleasure's careless guiding | L |
| To bring his vessel home | M |
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| For well he knew what dangers frowned | N |
| What mists would gather dim | O |
| What rocks and shelves and sands lay round | N |
| Between his port and him | O |
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| The very brightness of the sun | P |
| The splendour of the main | Q |
| The wind which bore him wildly on | R |
| Should not have warned in vain | Q |
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| An anxious gazer from the shore | S |
| I marked the whitening wave | T |
| And wept above thy fate the more | S |
| Because I could not save | T |
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| It recks not now when all is over | U |
| But yet my heart will be | F |
| A mourner still though friend and lover | U |
| Have both forgotten thee | F |
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