The Wayfarers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF AGAG HIHI JKJK ABAB| Still the white stars burn overhead | A |
| The green earth swings upon her way | B |
| Where are the voices of the dead | A |
| The hearts of Yesterday | B |
| Drawn by what strange mysterious power | C |
| From what dream world and magic sky | D |
| Came they to laugh on earth an hour | C |
| To weep to toil to die | D |
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| And whither gone On what wild flight | E |
| By planet pale and sceptred star | F |
| What realms of sorrow or delight | E |
| Now wander they afar | F |
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| Pale Wayfarers whose noiseless tread | A |
| Is near me as I seem to see | G |
| The mighty generations dead | A |
| And all that yet shall be | G |
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| Are Past and Future then a breath | H |
| That one vast Present makes its own | I |
| The Angel Birth the Shadow Death | H |
| Each guards a world unknown | I |
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| Wayfarers all we know not whence | J |
| We came nor whitherwards we go | K |
| Deep in our hearts a haunting sense | J |
| That somewhere we shall know | K |
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| Still the white stars burn overhead | A |
| The green earth swings upon her way | B |
| Where are the voices of the dead | A |
| The hearts of yesterday | B |
George Essex Evans
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