The Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM ANAN IOIO| Come list while I tell of the heart wounded Stranger | A |
| Who sleeps her last slumber in this haunted ground | B |
| Where often at midnight the lonely wood ranger | A |
| Hears soft fairy music re echo around | B |
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| None e'er knew the name of that heart stricken lady | C |
| Her language tho' sweet none could e'er understand | D |
| But her features so sunned and her eyelash so shady | C |
| Bespoke her a child of some far Eastern land | D |
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| 'Twas one summer night when the village lay sleeping | E |
| A soft strain of melody came o'er our ears | F |
| So sweet but so mournful half song and half weeping | E |
| Like music that Sorrow had steeped in her tears | G |
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| We thought 'twas an anthem some angel had sung us | H |
| But soon as the day beams had gushed from on high | I |
| With wonder we saw this bright stranger among us | H |
| All lovely and lone as if strayed from the sky | I |
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| Nor long did her life for this sphere seem intended | J |
| For pale was her cheek with that spirit like hue | K |
| Which comes when the day of this world is nigh ended | J |
| And light from another already shines through | K |
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| Then her eyes when she sung oh but once to have seen them | L |
| Left thoughts in the soul that can never depart | M |
| While her looks and her voice made a language between them | L |
| That spoke more than holiest words to the heart | M |
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| But she past like a day dream no skill could restore her | A |
| Whate'er was her sorrow its ruin came fast | N |
| She died with the same spell of mystery o'er her | A |
| That song of past days on her lips to the last | N |
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| Not even in the grave is her sad heart reposing | I |
| Still hovers the spirit of grief round her tomb | O |
| For oft when the shadows of midnight are closing | I |
| The same strain of music is heard thro' the gloom | O |
Thomas Moore
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