The Little Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB BFGFAFBH IJKJLJMJThe great roads are all grown over | A |
That seemed so firm and white | B |
The deep black forests have covered them | C |
How should I walk aright | B |
How should I thread these tangled mazes | D |
Or grope to that far off light | B |
I stumble round the thickets and they turn me | E |
Back to the thickets and the night | B |
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Yet sometimes at a word an elfin pass word | B |
O thin deep sweet with beaded rain | F |
There shines through a mist of ragged robins | G |
The old lost April coloured lane | F |
That leads me from myself for at a whisper | A |
Where the strong limbs thrust in vain | F |
At a breath if my heart help another heart | B |
The path shines out for me again | H |
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A thin thread a rambling lane for lovers | I |
To the light of the world's one May | J |
Where the white dropping flakes may wet our faces | K |
As we lift them to the bloom bowed spray | J |
O Master shall we ask Thee then for high roads | L |
Or down upon our knees and pray | J |
That Thou wilt ever lose us in Thy little lanes | M |
And lead us by a wandering way | J |
Alfred Noyes
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