Travels By The Fireside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHBH IJIJ KLML NONO PQPQ RSRS| The ceaseless rain is falling fast | A |
| And yonder gilded vane | B |
| Immovable for three days past | A |
| Points to the misty main | B |
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| It drives me in upon myself | C |
| And to the fireside gleams | D |
| To pleasant books that crowd my shelf | C |
| And still more pleasant dreams | D |
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| I read whatever bards have sung | E |
| Of lands beyond the sea | F |
| And the bright days when I was young | E |
| Come thronging back to me | F |
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| In fancy I can hear again | G |
| The Alpine torrent's roar | H |
| The mule bells on the hills of Spain | B |
| The sea at Elsinore | H |
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| I see the convent's gleaming wall | I |
| Rise from its groves of pine | J |
| And towers of old cathedrals tall | I |
| And castles by the Rhine | J |
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| I journey on by park and spire | K |
| Beneath centennial trees | L |
| Through fields with poppies all on fire | M |
| And gleams of distant seas | L |
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| I fear no more the dust and heat | N |
| No more I feel fatigue | O |
| While journeying with another's feet | N |
| O'er many a lengthening league | O |
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| Let others traverse sea and land | P |
| And toil through various climes | Q |
| I turn the world round with my hand | P |
| Reading these poets' rhymes | Q |
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| From them I learn whatever lies | R |
| Beneath each changing zone | S |
| And see when looking with their eyes | R |
| Better than with mine own | S |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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