Roofs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JKLLFor Amelia Josephine Burr | A |
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The road is wide and the stars are out and the breath of the night is sweet | B |
And this is the time when wanderlust should seize upon my feet | B |
But I'm glad to turn from the open road and the starlight on my face | C |
And to leave the splendour of out of doors for a human dwelling place | C |
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I never have seen a vagabond who really liked to roam | D |
All up and down the streets of the world and not to have a home | D |
The tramp who slept in your barn last night and left at break of day | E |
Will wander only until he finds another place to stay | E |
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A gypsy man will sleep in his cart with canvas overhead | F |
Or else he'll go into his tent when it is time for bed | F |
He'll sit on the grass and take his ease so long as the sun is high | G |
But when it is dark he wants a roof to keep away the sky | G |
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If you call a gypsy a vagabond I think you do him wrong | H |
For he never goes a travelling but he takes his home along | H |
And the only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows | I |
Is just because of the homes the homes the homes to which it goes | I |
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They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years | J |
And now and then there's a toll gate where you buy your way with tears | K |
It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far | L |
But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are | L |
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)
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