What The Traveller Said At Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGFG AHAH AIJK LMHM HNAO HPQP RSAS QTLU VWSW| The shadows grow and deepen round me | A |
| I feel the deffall in the air | B |
| The muezzin of the darkening thicket | C |
| I hear the night thrush call to prayer | B |
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| The evening wind is sad with farewells | D |
| And loving hands unclasp from mine | E |
| Alone I go to meet the darkness | F |
| Across an awful boundary line | E |
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| As from the lighted hearths behind me | A |
| I pass with slow reluctant feet | G |
| What waits me in the land of strangeness | F |
| What face shall smile what voice shall greet | G |
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| What space shall awe what brightness blind me | A |
| What thunder roll of music stun | H |
| What vast processions sweep before me | A |
| Of shapes unknown beneath the sun | H |
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| I shrink from unaccustomed glory | A |
| I dread the myriad voiced strain | I |
| Give me the unforgotten faces | J |
| And let my lost ones speak again | K |
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| He will not chide my mortal yearning | L |
| Who is our Brother and our Friend | M |
| In whose full life divine and human | H |
| The heavenly and the earthly blend | M |
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| Mine be the joy of soul communion | H |
| The sense of spiritual strength renewed | N |
| The reverence for the pure and holy | A |
| The dear delight of doing good | O |
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| No fitting ear is mine to listen | H |
| An endless anthem's rise and fall | P |
| No curious eye is mine to measure | Q |
| The pearl gate and the jasper wall | P |
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| For love must needs be more than knowledge | R |
| What matter if I never know | S |
| Why Aldebaran's star is ruddy | A |
| Or warmer Sirius white as snow | S |
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| Forgive my human words O Father | Q |
| I go Thy larger truth to prove | T |
| Thy mercy shall transcend my longing | L |
| I seek but love and Thou art Love | U |
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| I go to find my lost and mourned for | V |
| Safe in Thy sheltering goodness still | W |
| And all that hope and faith foreshadow | S |
| Made perfect in Thy holy will | W |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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