Afoot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC AAEA FFGF HHIH JJKJ LMGM| Comes the lure of green things growing | A |
| Comes the call of waters flowing | A |
| And the wayfarer desire | B |
| Moves and wakes and would be going | A |
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| Hark the migrant hosts of June | C |
| Marching nearer noon by noon | C |
| Hark the gossip of the grasses | D |
| Bivouacked beneath the moon | C |
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| Long the quest and far the ending | A |
| When my wayfarer is wending | A |
| When desire is once afoot | E |
| Doom behind and dream attending | A |
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| In his ears the phantom chime | F |
| Of incommunicable rhyme | F |
| He shall chase the fleeting camp fires | G |
| Of the Bedouins of Time | F |
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| Farer by uncharted ways | H |
| Dumb as death to plaint or praise | H |
| Unreturning he shall journey | I |
| Fellow to the nights and days | H |
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| Till upon the outer bar | J |
| Stilled the moaning currents are | J |
| Till the flame achieves the zenith | K |
| Till the moth attains the star | J |
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| Till through laughter and through tears | L |
| Fair the final peace appears | M |
| And about the watered pastures | G |
| Sink to sleep the nomad years | M |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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