The Murdered Traveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE FGFG HEHE IEIE JKJL EMEN EBEB| When spring to woods and wastes around | A |
| Brought bloom and joy again | B |
| The murdered traveller's bones were found | A |
| Far down a narrow glen | B |
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| The fragrant birch above him hung | C |
| Her tassels in the sky | D |
| And many a vernal blossom sprung | C |
| And nodded careless by | D |
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| The red bird warbled as he wrought | E |
| His hanging nest o'erhead | E |
| And fearless near the fatal spot | E |
| Her young the partridge led | E |
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| But there was weeping far away | F |
| And gentle eyes for him | G |
| With watching many an anxious day | F |
| Were sorrowful and dim | G |
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| They little knew who loved him so | H |
| The fearful death he met | E |
| When shouting o'er the desert snow | H |
| Unarmed and hard beset | E |
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| Nor how when round the frosty pole | I |
| The northern dawn was red | E |
| The mountain wolf and wild cat stole | I |
| To banquet on the dead | E |
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| Nor how when strangers found his bones | J |
| They dressed the hasty bier | K |
| And marked his grave with nameless stones | J |
| Unmoistened by a tear | L |
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| But long they looked and feared and wept | E |
| Within his distant home | M |
| And dreamed and started as they slept | E |
| For joy that he was come | N |
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| Long long they looked but never spied | E |
| His welcome step again | B |
| Nor knew the fearful death he died | E |
| Far down that narrow glen | B |
William Cullen Bryant
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