The Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDD EFGFFHFHH DHDHHIHII BBBBBBBBB DIDIIDIDD JBJBBKBKK BHBHHBHBB ILILLBLBBExcerpt from Gertrude Of Wyoming | A |
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Apart there was a deep untrodden grot | B |
Where oft the reading hours sweet Gertrude wore | C |
Tradition had not named its lonely spot | B |
But here methinks might India's sons explore | C |
Their father's dust or lift perchance of yore | C |
Their voice to the great Spirit rocks sublime | D |
To human art a sportive semblance bore | C |
And yellow lichens coloured all the clime | D |
Like moonlight battlements and towers decayed by time | D |
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But high in amphitheatre above | E |
Gay tinted woods their massy foliage threw | F |
Breathed but an air of heaven and all the grove | G |
As if instinct with living spirit grew | F |
Rolling its verdant gulfs of every hue | F |
And now suspended was the pleasing din | H |
Now from a murmur faint it swelled anew | F |
Like the first note of organ heard within | H |
Cathedral aisles ere yet its symphony begin | H |
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It was in this lone valley she would charm | D |
the lingering noon where flowers a couch had strown | H |
Her cheek reclining and her snowy arm | D |
On hillock by the pine tree half o'ergrown | H |
And aye that volume on her lap is thrown | H |
Which every heart of human mould endears | I |
With Shakspear's self she speaks and smiles alone | H |
And no intruding visitation fears | I |
To shame the unconscious laugh or stop her sweetest tears | I |
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And nought within the grove was seen or heard | B |
But stock doves plaining through its gloom profound | B |
Or winglet of the fairy humming bird | B |
Like atoms of the rainbow fluttering round | B |
When lo there entered to its inmost ground | B |
A youth the stranger of a distant land | B |
He was to weet for eastern mountains bound | B |
But late th' equator suns his cheeks had tanned | B |
And California's gales his roving bosom fanned | B |
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A steed whose rein hung loosely o'er his arm | D |
He led dismounted ere his leisure pace | I |
Amid the brown leaves could her ear alarm | D |
Close he had come and worshipped for a space | I |
Those downcast features she her lovely face | I |
Uplift on one whose lineaments and frame | D |
Wore youth and manhood's intermingled grace | I |
Iberian seemed his boot his robe the same | D |
And well the Spanish plume his lofty looks became | D |
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For Albert's home he sought her finger fair | J |
Has pointed where the father's mansion stood | B |
Returning from the copse he soon was there | J |
And soon has Getrude hied from dark green wood | B |
Nor joyess by the converse understood | B |
Between the man of age and pilgrim young | K |
That gay congeniality of mood | B |
And early liking from acquaintance sprung | K |
Full fluently coversed their guest in England's tongue | K |
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And well could he his pilgrimage of taste | B |
Unfold and much they loved his fervid strain | H |
While he each fair variety retraced | B |
Of climes and manners o'er the eastern main | H |
Now happy Switzer's hills romantic Spain | H |
Gay lilied fields of France or more refined | B |
The soft Ausonia's monumental reign | H |
Nor less each rural image he designed | B |
Than all the city's pomp and home of human kind | B |
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Anon some wilder portraiture he draws | I |
Of Nature's savage glories he would speak | L |
The loneliness of earth that overawes | I |
Where resting by some tomb of old Cacique | L |
The lama driver on Peruvia's peak | L |
Nor living voice nor motion marks around | B |
But storks that to the boundless forest shriek | L |
Or wild cane arch high flung o'er gulf profound | B |
That fluctuates when the storms of El Dorado sound | B |
Thomas Campbell
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