The Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDD EFGFFHFHH DHDHHIHII BBBBBBBBB DIDIIDIDD JBJBBKBKK BHBHHBHBB ILILLBLBB

Excerpt from Gertrude Of WyomingA
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Apart there was a deep untrodden grotB
Where oft the reading hours sweet Gertrude woreC
Tradition had not named its lonely spotB
But here methinks might India's sons exploreC
Their father's dust or lift perchance of yoreC
Their voice to the great Spirit rocks sublimeD
To human art a sportive semblance boreC
And yellow lichens coloured all the climeD
Like moonlight battlements and towers decayed by timeD
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But high in amphitheatre aboveE
Gay tinted woods their massy foliage threwF
Breathed but an air of heaven and all the groveG
As if instinct with living spirit grewF
Rolling its verdant gulfs of every hueF
And now suspended was the pleasing dinH
Now from a murmur faint it swelled anewF
Like the first note of organ heard withinH
Cathedral aisles ere yet its symphony beginH
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It was in this lone valley she would charmD
the lingering noon where flowers a couch had strownH
Her cheek reclining and her snowy armD
On hillock by the pine tree half o'ergrownH
And aye that volume on her lap is thrownH
Which every heart of human mould endearsI
With Shakspear's self she speaks and smiles aloneH
And no intruding visitation fearsI
To shame the unconscious laugh or stop her sweetest tearsI
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And nought within the grove was seen or heardB
But stock doves plaining through its gloom profoundB
Or winglet of the fairy humming birdB
Like atoms of the rainbow fluttering roundB
When lo there entered to its inmost groundB
A youth the stranger of a distant landB
He was to weet for eastern mountains boundB
But late th' equator suns his cheeks had tannedB
And California's gales his roving bosom fannedB
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A steed whose rein hung loosely o'er his armD
He led dismounted ere his leisure paceI
Amid the brown leaves could her ear alarmD
Close he had come and worshipped for a spaceI
Those downcast features she her lovely faceI
Uplift on one whose lineaments and frameD
Wore youth and manhood's intermingled graceI
Iberian seemed his boot his robe the sameD
And well the Spanish plume his lofty looks becameD
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For Albert's home he sought her finger fairJ
Has pointed where the father's mansion stoodB
Returning from the copse he soon was thereJ
And soon has Getrude hied from dark green woodB
Nor joyess by the converse understoodB
Between the man of age and pilgrim youngK
That gay congeniality of moodB
And early liking from acquaintance sprungK
Full fluently coversed their guest in England's tongueK
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And well could he his pilgrimage of tasteB
Unfold and much they loved his fervid strainH
While he each fair variety retracedB
Of climes and manners o'er the eastern mainH
Now happy Switzer's hills romantic SpainH
Gay lilied fields of France or more refinedB
The soft Ausonia's monumental reignH
Nor less each rural image he designedB
Than all the city's pomp and home of human kindB
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Anon some wilder portraiture he drawsI
Of Nature's savage glories he would speakL
The loneliness of earth that overawesI
Where resting by some tomb of old CaciqueL
The lama driver on Peruvia's peakL
Nor living voice nor motion marks aroundB
But storks that to the boundless forest shriekL
Or wild cane arch high flung o'er gulf profoundB
That fluctuates when the storms of El Dorado soundB

Thomas Campbell



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