The Seeker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHFIJIJKLK ILMFMNFIOIOHIHIIIOIP OIQIQ| GOOD People by your fires to night | A |
| Sit close and praise the red red wood | B |
| The wind is cold the moon is white | A |
| With me who wander 'tis not well it is not well but God is good | B |
| 'Fore birth I was foredoomed to roam | C |
| To keep my soul and self apart | D |
| An alien without hearth and home | C |
| With me who wander 'tis not well there is no warmth of fire or heart | D |
| I mate with all the wandering winds | E |
| That roam across the wintry earth | F |
| What time behind your close drawn blinds | G |
| Your firelit faces smile and smile I would that I might share their | H |
| mirth | F |
| But if I entered I should sit | I |
| A wordless dreamer at your fire | J |
| With heart unwarmed and eyes unlit | I |
| I should be like a spectre there shut off from you and your desire | J |
| And yet I would that I might warm | K |
| My heart and hands at your fire glow | L |
| But headlong seas and shouting storm | K |
| They thrill my blood they fill my eyes they call me forth and I must | I |
| go | L |
| Good People maids and dames and sires | M |
| Ye have your little woe and mirth | F |
| Ye dream no dream but there are spires | M |
| That point to stars and still point on in spite of this dark drawing | N |
| earth | F |
| It is not well with me to night | I |
| And I by that strange shore would be | O |
| Where 'twist day's last grey gleam and night | I |
| A Wonder wanes that I alone of all the world must seek and see | O |
| What cliffs they be what sea rolls there | H |
| I do not know but spirit chained | I |
| Lost visions fill me with despair | H |
| And all the washed grey foreland speaks of some strange Wonder that | I |
| has waned | I |
| Good People bread and wine are good | I |
| And all your visions goodly be | O |
| But some may crave for other food | I |
| And some are seekers from their birth and dream of lights they shall | P |
| not see | O |
| And there is he who fain would find | I |
| A Wonder by an alien shore | Q |
| Athwart the seas he speeds his mind | I |
| But on the instant fades a light and lo the Wonder is no more | Q |
Roderic Quinn
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