In The Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBDDEFFEAAAAAAAA GAHIHHAAJJ| Christ of His gentleness | A |
| Thirsting and hungering | B |
| Walked in the wilderness | A |
| Soft words of grace He spoke | C |
| Unto lost desert folk | C |
| That listened wondering | B |
| He heard the bitterns call | D |
| From ruined palace wall | D |
| Answered them brotherly | E |
| He held communion | F |
| With the she pelican | F |
| Of lonely piety | E |
| Basilisk cockatrice | A |
| Flocked to his homilies | A |
| With mail of dread device | A |
| With monstrous barb eacute d slings | A |
| With eager dragon eyes | A |
| Great rats on leather wings | A |
| And poor blind broken things | A |
| Foul in their miseries | A |
| And ever with Him went | G |
| Of all His wanderings | A |
| Comrade with ragged coat | H |
| Gaunt ribs poor innocent | I |
| Bleeding foot burning throat | H |
| The guileless old scapegoat | H |
| For forty nights and days | A |
| Followed in Jesus' ways | A |
| Sure guard behind Him kept | J |
| Tears like a lover wept | J |
Robert Graves
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