The Wanderer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDBDE FGHGHG IJIJIJ KLKLKK MNMNMN| There is nobody on the road | A |
| But I | B |
| And no beseeming abode | A |
| I can try | B |
| For shelter so abroad | C |
| I must lie | B |
| - | |
| The stars feel not far up | D |
| And to be | E |
| The lights by which I sup | D |
| Glimmeringly | B |
| Set out in a hollow cup | D |
| Over me | E |
| - | |
| They wag as though they were | F |
| Panting for joy | G |
| Where they shine above all care | H |
| And annoy | G |
| And demons of despair | H |
| Life's alloy | G |
| - | |
| Sometimes outside the fence | I |
| Feet swing past | J |
| Clock like and then go hence | I |
| Till at last | J |
| There is a silence dense | I |
| Deep and vast | J |
| - | |
| A wanderer witch drawn | K |
| To and fro | L |
| To morrow at the dawn | K |
| On I go | L |
| And where I rest anon | K |
| Do not know | K |
| - | |
| Yet it's meet this bed of hay | M |
| And roofless plight | N |
| For there's a house of clay | M |
| My own quite | N |
| To roof me soon all day | M |
| And all night | N |
Thomas Hardy
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