The Wandering Bard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAA FFDDGHIIJJKK LMMMNOMMPPQQ| What life like that of the bard can be | A |
| The wandering bard who roams as free | A |
| As the mountain lark that o'er him sings | B |
| And like that lark a music brings | B |
| Within him where'er he comes or goes | C |
| A fount that for ever flows | C |
| The world's to him like some playground | D |
| Where fairies dance their moonlight round | D |
| It dimm'd the turf where late they trod | E |
| The elves but seek some greener sod | E |
| So when less bright his scene of glee | A |
| To another away flies he | A |
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| Oh what would have been young Beauty's doom | F |
| Without a bard to fix her bloom | F |
| They tell us in the moon's bright round | D |
| Things lost in this dark world are found | D |
| So charms on earth long pass'd and gone | G |
| In the poet's lay live on | H |
| Would you have smiles that ne'er grow dim | I |
| You've only to give them all to him | I |
| Who with but a touch of Fancy's wand | J |
| Can lend them life this life beyond | J |
| And fix them high in Poesy's sky | K |
| Young stars that never die | K |
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| Then welcome the bard where'er he comes | L |
| For though he hath countless airy homes | M |
| To which his wing excursive roves | M |
| Yet still from time to time he loves | M |
| To light upon earth and find such cheer | N |
| As brightens our banquet here | O |
| No matter how far how fleet he flies | M |
| You've only to light up kind young eyes | M |
| Such signal fires as here are given | P |
| And down he'll drop from Fancy's heaven | P |
| The minute such call to love or mirth | Q |
| Proclaim's he's wanting on the earth | Q |
Thomas Moore
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