The Wayfarer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADAEFGHA IJK LK MN OP QJPNRN RPNJ LLLLLSS KLOLTT| I THE TREES | A |
| THERE is no glory of the sunset here | B |
| Heavy the clouds upon the darkening road | C |
| And heavy too the wind upon the trees | A |
| The trees sway making moan | D |
| Continuous like breaking seas | A |
| impotent bare things | E |
| You give at last the very cry of earth | F |
| I walk this darkening road in solemn mood | G |
| Within deep hell came Dante to a wood | H |
| Like him I marvel at the crying trees | A |
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| II THE STAR | I |
| A mighty star anear has drawn and now | J |
| Is vibrant on the air | K |
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| The half divested trembling trees of his | L |
| Bright presence are aware | K |
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| Below within the stream I him behold | M |
| Between the marge and main | N |
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| My bone and flesh what dust they'll be when he | O |
| That star dips here again | P |
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| III THE CAPTIVE ARCHER | Q |
| To morrow I will bend the bow | J |
| My soul shall have her mark again | P |
| My bosom feel the archer's strain | N |
| No longer pacing to and fro | R |
| With idle hands and listless brain | N |
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| As goes the arrow forth I go | R |
| My soul shall have her mark again | P |
| My bosom feel the archer's strain | N |
| To morrow I will bend the bow | J |
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| IV TRIUMPHATORS | L |
| The drivers in the sunset race | L |
| Their coal carts over cobble stones | L |
| Not draymen but tnumphators | L |
| Their bags are left with Smith and Jones | L |
| They let the horses take their stride | S |
| Which toss their forelocks in their pride | S |
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| Not blue nor green these factions wear | K |
| Which make career o'er Dublin stones | L |
| But Pluto his own livery | O |
| Is what each whip carrier owns | L |
| The Caesar of the cab rank I | T |
| Salute the triumph speeding by | T |
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