The Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHCCC IGDCHJCCCGKLJ| At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses | A |
| Sweeping triumphant across it it wound between hedges of roses | B |
| Whose blossoms were poised above leaves as pond lilies float on the water | C |
| While hidden by bloom in a hawthorn a bird filled the morning with singing | D |
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| It widened a highway majestic stretching ever to distant horizons | E |
| Where shadows of tree branches wavered vague outlines invaded by sunshine | F |
| No sound but the wind as it whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers | G |
| And the hum of the yellow bees honey laden and dusty with pollen | H |
| And Summer said Come follow onward with no thought save the longing to wander | C |
| The wind and the bees and the flowers all singing the great song of Nature | C |
| Are minstrels of change and of promise they herald the joy of the Future | C |
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| Later the solitude vanished confused and distracted the road | I |
| Where many were seeking and jostling Left behind were the trees and the flowers | G |
| The half realized beauty of quiet the sacred unconscious communing | D |
| And now he is come to a river a line of gray sullen water | C |
| Not blue and splashing but dark rolling somberly on to the ocean | H |
| But on the far side is a city whose windows flame gold in the sunset | J |
| It lies fair and shining before him a gem set betwixt sky and water | C |
| And spanning the river a bridge frail promise to longing desire | C |
| Flung by man in his infinite courage across the stern force of the water | C |
| And he looks at the river and fears the bridge is so slight yet he ventures | G |
| His life to its fragile keeping if it fails the waves will engulf him | K |
| O Arches be strong to uphold him and bear him across to the city | L |
| The beautiful city whose spires still glow with the fires of sunset | J |
Amy Lowell
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