The Wonderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGEE HHIIJJHH KKLLMMKK NNOOPPAALLQQRS TTUULLVV| I wish that I could understand | A |
| The moving marvel of my Hand | A |
| I watch my fingers turn and twist | B |
| The supple bending of my wrist | B |
| The dainty touch of finger tip | C |
| The steel intensity of grip | C |
| A tool of exquisite design | D |
| With pride I think It's mine It's mine | D |
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| Then there's the wonder of my Eyes | E |
| Where hills and houses seas and skies | E |
| In waves of light converge and pass | F |
| And print themselves as on a glass | F |
| Line form and color live in me | G |
| I am the Beauty that I see | G |
| Ah I could write a book of size | E |
| About the wonder of my Eyes | E |
| - | |
| What of the wonder of my Heart | H |
| That plays so faithfully its part | H |
| I hear it running sound and sweet | I |
| It does not seem to miss a beat | I |
| Between the cradle and the grave | J |
| It never falters stanch and brave | J |
| Alas I wish I had the art | H |
| To tell the wonder of my Heart | H |
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| Then oh but how can I explain | K |
| The wondrous wonder of my Brain | K |
| That marvelous machine that brings | L |
| All consciousness of wonderings | L |
| That lets me from myself leap out | M |
| And watch my body walk about | M |
| It's hopeless all my words are vain | K |
| To tell the wonder of my Brain | K |
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| But do not think O patient friend | N |
| Who reads these stanzas to the end | N |
| That I myself would glorify | O |
| You're just as wonderful as I | O |
| And all Creation in our view | P |
| Is quite as marvelous as you | P |
| Come let us on the sea shore stand | A |
| And wonder at a grain of sand | A |
| And then into the meadow pass | L |
| And marvel at a blade of grass | L |
| Or cast our vision high and far | Q |
| And thrill with wonder at a star | Q |
| A host of stars night's holy tent | R |
| Huge glittering with wonderment | S |
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| If wonder is in great and small | T |
| Then what of Him who made it all | T |
| In eyes and brain and heart and limb | U |
| Let's see the wondrous work of Him | U |
| In house and hill and sward and sea | L |
| In bird and beast and flower and tree | L |
| In everything from sun to sod | V |
| The wonder and the awe of God | V |
Robert Service
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