The Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDBBEEFF GGGHHH IJJIIKK| In the nook of a wood where a pool freshed with dew | A |
| Glassed daybreak till evening blue sky glimpsing through | A |
| Then a star or a slip of May moon silver white | B |
| Thridding softly aloof the quiet of night | B |
| Was a thicket of flowers | C |
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| Willow herb mint pale speedwell and rattle | D |
| Water hemlock and sundew to the wind's tittle tattle | D |
| They nodded dreamed swayed in jocund delight | B |
| In beauty and sweetness arrayed still and bright | B |
| By turn scampered rabbit trotted fox bee and bird | E |
| Paused droning sang shrill and the fair water stirred | E |
| Plashed green frog or some brisk little flickering fish | F |
| Gudgeon stickleback minnow set the ripples a swish | F |
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| A lone pool a pool grass fringed crystal clear | G |
| Deep placid and cool in the sweet of the year | G |
| Edge parched when the sun to the Dog Days drew near | G |
| And with winter's bleak rime hard as glass robed in snow | H |
| The whole wild wood sleeping and nothing a blow | H |
| But the wind from the North bringing snow | H |
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| That is all Save that one long sweet June night tide straying | I |
| The harsh hemlock's pale umbelliferous bloom | J |
| Tenting nook dense with fragrance and secret with gloom | J |
| In a beaming of moon colored light faintly raying | I |
| On buds orbed with dew phosphorescently playing | I |
| Came a Stranger still footed feat fingered clear face | K |
| Unhumanly lovely and supped in that place | K |
Walter De La Mare
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