The Wandering Jew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEE FGFGHHEE IJIJKKEE LMLMMMEE MNMNOOEE PNPNQQEE

The stars are falling and the skyA
Is like a field of faded flowersB
The winds on weary wings go byA
The moon hides and the tempest lowersB
And still through every clime and ageC
I wander on a pilgrimageD
That all men know an idle questE
For that the goal I seek is RestE
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I hear the voice of summer streamsF
And following I find the brinkG
Of cooling springs with childish dreamsF
Returning as I bend to drinkG
But suddenly with startled eyesH
My face looks on its grim disguiseH
Of long gray beard and so distressedE
I hasten on nor taste of restE
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I come upon a merry groupI
Of children in the dusky woodJ
Who answer back the owlet's whoopI
That laughs as it had understoodJ
And I would pause a little spaceK
But that each happy blossom faceK
Is like to one His hands have blessedE
Who sent me forth in search of restE
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Sometimes I fain would stay my feetL
In shady lanes where huddled kineM
Couch in the grasses cool and sweetL
And lift their patient eyes to mineM
But I for thoughts that ever thenM
Go back to Bethlehem againM
Must needs fare on my weary questE
And weep for very need of restE
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Is there no end I plead in vainM
Lost worlds nor living answer meN
Since Pontius Pilate's awful reignM
Have I not passed eternityN
Have I not drunk the fetid breathO
Of every fevered phase of deathO
And come unscathed through every pestE
And scourge and plague that promised restE
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Have I not seen the stars go outP
That shed their light o'er GalileeN
And mighty kingdoms tossed aboutP
And crumbled clod like in the seaN
Dead ashes of dead ages blowQ
And cover me like drifting snowQ
And time laughs on as 'twere a jestE
That I have any need of restE

James Whitcomb Riley



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