The Listeners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEAGHGIJKJLMNM OPQPRESEITUTVWSX| Is there anybody there said the Traveller | A |
| Knocking on the moonlit door | B |
| And his horse in the silence champed the grass | C |
| Of the forest's ferny floor | B |
| And a bird flew up out of the turret | D |
| Above the Traveller's head | E |
| And he smote upon the door again a second time | F |
| Is there anybody there he said | E |
| But no one descended to the Traveller | A |
| No head from the leaf fringed sill | G |
| Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes | H |
| Where he stood perplexed and still | G |
| But only a host of phantom listeners | I |
| That dwelt in the lone house then | J |
| Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight | K |
| To that voice from the world of men | J |
| Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair | L |
| That goes down to the empty hall | M |
| Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken | N |
| By the lonely Traveller's call | M |
| And he felt in his heart their strangeness | O |
| Their stillness answering his cry | P |
| While his horse moved cropping the dark turf | Q |
| 'Neath the starred and leafy sky | P |
| For he suddenly smote on the door even | R |
| Louder and lifted his head | E |
| Tell them I came and no one answered | S |
| That I kept my word he said | E |
| Never the least stir made the listeners | I |
| Though every word he spake | T |
| Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house | U |
| From the one man left awake | T |
| Ay they heard his foot upon the stirrup | V |
| And the sound of iron on stone | W |
| And how the silence surged softly backward | S |
| When the plunging hoofs were gone | X |
Walter De La Mare
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