The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGD G BHIJBAG A HHGDD G DDKLGM A DNDD G O A PDQ G A A HDAGGR G SAAK A A T DDP A U G K A V G BGM A AHBWHG G BM A AMSRXAYDBZDDVA2A2DWY BX G B2KAADAC2 A D2DD2D2BDD2D2E2DD2F2 D2DG2DH2 G I2DD A J2DK2 G L2M2N2Q A J2 G O2KD2J2GDDP2M A GD2Q2R2DD2OYD2D2D2D2 DD2G G G A BE2 G B A II2 G R2 A D2 G D2 A J2P2DD2D2MD2S2T2P2R2 DMGD2D2WANDERER | A |
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YOUNG woman may God bless thee | B |
Thee and the sucking infant | C |
Upon thy breast | D |
Let me 'gainst this rocky wall | E |
Neath the elm tree's shadow | F |
Lay aside my burden | G |
Near thee take my rest | D |
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WOMAN | G |
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What vocation leads thee | B |
While the day is burning | H |
Up this dusty path | I |
Bring'st thou goods from out the town | J |
Round the country | B |
Smil'st thou stranger | A |
At my question | G |
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WANDERER | A |
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From the town no goods I bring | H |
Cool is now the evening | H |
Show to me the fountain | G |
'Whence thou drinkest | D |
Woman young and kind | D |
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WOMAN | G |
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Up the rocky pathway mount | D |
Go thou first Across the thicket | D |
Leads the pathway tow'rd the cottage | K |
That I live in | L |
To the fountain | G |
Whence I drink | M |
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WANDERER | A |
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Signs of man's arranging hand | D |
See I 'mid the trees | N |
Not by thee these stones were join'd | D |
Nature who so freely scatterest | D |
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WOMAN | G |
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Up still up | O |
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WANDERER | A |
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Lo a mossy architrave is here | P |
I discern thee fashioning spirit | D |
On the stone thou hast impress'd thy seal | Q |
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WOMAN | G |
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Onward stranger | A |
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WANDERER | A |
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Over an inscription am I treading | H |
'Tis effaced | D |
Ye are seen no longer | A |
Words so deeply graven | G |
Who your master's true devotion | G |
Should have shown to thousand grandsons | R |
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WOMAN | G |
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At these stones why | S |
Start'st thou stranger | A |
Many stones are lying yonder | A |
Round my cottage | K |
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WANDERER | A |
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Yonder | A |
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W OMAN | T |
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Through the thicket | D |
Turning to the left | D |
Here | P |
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WANDERER | A |
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Ye Muses and ye Graces | U |
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WOMAN | G |
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This then is my cottage | K |
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WANDERER | A |
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'Tis a ruin'd temple | V |
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WOMAN | G |
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Just below it see | B |
Springs the fountain | G |
Whence I drink | M |
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WANDERER | A |
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Thou dost hover | A |
O'er thy grave all glowing | H |
Genius while upon thee | B |
Hath thy master piece | W |
Fallen crumbling | H |
Thou Immortal One | G |
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WOMAN | G |
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Stay a cup I'll fetch thee | B |
Whence to drink | M |
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WANDERER | A |
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Ivy circles thy slender | A |
Form so graceful and godlike | M |
How ye rise on high | S |
From the ruins | R |
Column pair | X |
And thou their lonely sister yonder | A |
How thou | Y |
Dusky moss upon thy sacred head | D |
Lookest down in mournful majesty | B |
On thy brethren's figures | Z |
Lying scatter'd | D |
At thy feet | D |
In the shadow of the bramble | V |
Earth and rubbish veil them | A2 |
Lofty grass is waving o'er them | A2 |
Is it thus thou Nature prizest | D |
Thy great masterpiece's masterpiece | W |
Carelessly destroyest thou | Y |
Thine own sanctuary | B |
Sowing thistles there | X |
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WOMAN | G |
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How the infant sleeps | B2 |
Wilt thou rest thee in the cottage | K |
Stranger Wouldst thou rather | A |
In the open air still linger | A |
Now 'tis cool take thou the child | D |
While I go and draw some water | A |
Sleep on darling sleep | C2 |
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WANDERER | A |
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Sweet is thy repose | D2 |
How with heaven born health imbued | D |
Peacefully he slumbers | D2 |
Oh thou born among the ruins | D2 |
Spread by great antiquity | B |
On thee rest her spirit | D |
He whom it encircles | D2 |
Will in godlike consciousness | D2 |
Ev'ry day enjoy | E2 |
Full of germ unfold | D |
As the smiling springtime's | D2 |
Fairest charm | F2 |
Outshining all thy fellows | D2 |
And when the blossom's husk is faded | D |
May the full fruit shoot forth | G2 |
From out thy breast | D |
And ripen in the sunshine | H2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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God bless him Is he sleeping still | I2 |
To the fresh draught I nought can add | D |
Saving a crust of bread for thee to eat | D |
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WANDERER | A |
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I thank thee well | J2 |
How fair the verdure all around | D |
How green | K2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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My husband soon | L2 |
Will home return | M2 |
From labour Tarry tarry man | N2 |
And with us eat our evening meal | Q |
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WANDERER | A |
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Is't here ye dwell | J2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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Yonder within those walls we live | O2 |
My father 'twas who built the cottage | K |
Of tiles and stones from out the ruins | D2 |
'Tis here we dwell | J2 |
He gave me to a husbandman | G |
And in our arms expired | D |
Hast thou been sleeping dearest heart | D |
How lively and how full of play | P2 |
Sweet rogue | M |
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WANDERER | A |
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Nature thou ever budding one | G |
Thou formest each for life's enjoyments | D2 |
And like a mother all thy children dear | Q2 |
Blessest with that sweet heritage a home | R2 |
The swallow builds the cornice round | D |
Unconscious of the beauties | D2 |
She plasters up | O |
The caterpillar spins around the bough | Y |
To make her brood a winter house | D2 |
And thou dost patch between antiquity's | D2 |
Most glorious relics | D2 |
For thy mean use | D2 |
Oh man a humble cot | D |
Enjoyest e'en mid tombs | D2 |
Farewell thou happy woman | G |
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WOMAN | G |
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Thou wilt not stay then | G |
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WANDERER | A |
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May God preserve thee | B |
And bless thy boy | E2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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A happy journey | B |
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WANDERER | A |
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Whither conducts the path | I |
Across yon hill | I2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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To Cuma | R2 |
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WANDERER | A |
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How far from hence | D2 |
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WOMAN | G |
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'Tis full three miles | D2 |
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WANDERER | A |
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Farewell | J2 |
Oh Nature guide me on my way | P2 |
The wandering stranger guide | D |
Who o'er the tombs | D2 |
Of holy bygone times | D2 |
Is passing | M |
To a kind sheltering place | D2 |
From North winds safe | S2 |
And where a poplar grove | T2 |
Shuts out the noontide ray | P2 |
And when I come | R2 |
Home to my cot | D |
At evening | M |
Illumined by the setting sun | G |
Let me embrace a wife like this | D2 |
Her infant in her arms | D2 |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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