The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEEAA DDFGHI JJKKDDOver 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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