The Hearer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEDE FGHG IJKJ| 'SING of the things we know and love ' | A |
| But the singer made reply | B |
| 'There are greater lands to tell you of | C |
| And stars to steer you by ' | A |
| - | |
| So he sang of worlds austere and strange | D |
| Of seas so wildly wide | E |
| That only the journeying swan might range | D |
| The marches of the tide | E |
| - | |
| Men heard the thunder and the rain | F |
| The tempest in his song | G |
| They turned to their hearth fires again | H |
| And thought the night too long | G |
| - | |
| And only one man dared to hear | I |
| The deeds that singer told | J |
| Against the stars he swung his spear | K |
| And died ere he was old | J |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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