The Road Through Chaos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DADA EFEG HH A IJIJ KLKL LMLM NN| I | A |
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| There is one road one only to the Light | B |
| A narrow way but Freedom walks therein | C |
| A straight firm road through Chaos and old Night | B |
| And all these wandering Jack o Lents of Sin | C |
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| It is the road of Law where Pilate stays | D |
| To hear at last the answer to his cry | A |
| And mighty sages groping through their maze | D |
| Of eager questions hear a child reply | A |
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| Truth What is Truth Come look upon my tables | E |
| Begin at your beginnings once again | F |
| Twice one is two Though all the rest be fables | E |
| Here's one poor glimpse of Truth to keep you sane | G |
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| For Truth at first is clean accord with fact | H |
| Whether in line or thought or word or act | H |
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| II | A |
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| Then by those first those clean precise accords | I |
| Build to the Lord your temples and your song | J |
| The curves of beauty music's wedded chords | I |
| Resolving into heaven all hate and wrong | J |
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| Let harmonies of colour marry and follow | K |
| And breaking waves in a rhythmic dance ensue | L |
| And all your thought fly free as the wings of the swallow | K |
| Whose arrowy curves obey their measure too | L |
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| Then shall the marching stars and tides befriend you | L |
| And your own heart and the world's heart pulse in rhyme | M |
| Then shall the mob of the passions that would rend you | L |
| Crown you their Captain and march on in time | M |
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| So shall you repossess your struggling soul | N |
| Conquer your world and find the eternal goal | N |
Alfred Noyes
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