The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEEAA DDFGHI JJKKDD| Over the pool of sleep | A |
| The night mists creep | A |
| Then faint thin light and then clear day | B |
| Noontide and lingering afternoon | C |
| Then that Wanderer the Moon | C |
| Wandering her old wild way | B |
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| How many spirits follow | D |
| Her in that dark hollow | D |
| Like a lost lamb she roams on high | E |
| Through the cold and soundless sky | E |
| And stares down into her deep | A |
| Reflection in the pool of sleep | A |
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| How many follow | D |
| Her in that lone hollow | D |
| She sees them not nor would she hear | F |
| Though both shape and sound were clear | G |
| But stares stares into the pool | H |
| Of her fear and beauty full | I |
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| Far in strange gay skies | J |
| She pales and dies | J |
| Forgetting that bright transitory | K |
| Reflection of astonished glory | K |
| Nor heeds the spirits that follow | D |
| Her into day's bright hollow | D |
John Freeman
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