The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDEEFGGHHGIIJJI KKLLKGGMMGNOPPQRRRRR| Between the death of day and birth of night | A |
| By War's red light | A |
| I met with one in trailing sorrows clad | B |
| Whose features had | B |
| The look of Him who died to set men right | A |
| Around him many horrors like great worms | C |
| Terrific forms | D |
| Crawled helmed like hippogriff and rosmarine | E |
| Gaunt and obscene | E |
| Urged on to battle with a thousand arms | F |
| Columns of steel and iron belching flame | G |
| Before them came | G |
| And cities crumbled and amid them trod | H |
| Havoc their god | H |
| With Desolation that no tongue may name | G |
| And out of Heaven came a burning breath | I |
| And on it Death | I |
| Riding before him huge and bellowing herds | J |
| Of beasts like birds | J |
| Bat winged and demon nothing conquereth | I |
| Hag lights went by and Fear that shrieks and dies | K |
| And mouths with cries | K |
| Of famine and the madness of Despair | L |
| And everywhere | L |
| Curses like kings with ever burning eyes | K |
| And lo the shadow shook and cried a name | G |
| That grew a flame | G |
| Above the world and said 'Give heed give heed | M |
| See how they bleed | M |
| My wounds my wounds Was it for this I came | G |
| 'Where is the love for which I shed my blood | N |
| And where the good | O |
| I preached and died for Lo ye have denied | P |
| And crucified | P |
| Me here again who swore me brotherhood ' | Q |
| Then overhead the vault of night was rent | R |
| The firmament | R |
| Winged thunder over of aerial craft | R |
| And Battle laughed | R |
| Titanic laughter as its way it went | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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