At The Road-house: In Memory Of Robert Louis Stevenson. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE BBFB GBHB IJKJ LMNM GOGO PQBQ RSTS UVBW XGYG BKBK BYZY

You hearken fellows Turned asideA
Into the road house of the pastB
The prince of vagabonds is goneC
To house among his peers at lastB
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The stainless gallant gentlemanD
So glad of life he gave no traceE
No hint he even once beheldB
The spectre peering in his faceE
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But gay and modest held the roadB
Nor feared the Shadow of the DustB
And saw the whole world rich with joyF
As every valiant farer mustB
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I think that old and vasty innG
Will have a welcome guest to nightB
When Chaucer breaking off some taleH
That fills his hearers with delightB
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Shall lift up his demure brown eyesI
To bid the stranger in and allJ
Will turn to greet the one on whomK
The crystal lot was last to fallJ
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Keats of the more than mortal tongueL
Will take grave Milton by the sleeveM
To meet their kin whose woven wordsN
Had elvish music in the weaveM
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Dear Lamb and excellent MontaigneG
Sterne and the credible DefoeO
Borrow DeQuincey the great DeanG
The sturdy leisurist ThoreauO
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The furtive soul whose dark romanceP
By ghostly door and haunted stairQ
Explored the dusty human heartB
And the forgotten garrets thereQ
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The moralist it could not spoilR
To hold an empire in his handsS
Sir Walter and the brood who sprangT
From Homer through a hundred landsS
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Singers of songs on all men's lipsU
Tellers of tales in all men's earsV
Movers of hearts that still must beatB
To sorrows feigned and fabled tearsW
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Horace and Omar doubting stillX
What mystery lurks beyond the seenG
Yet blithe and reassured beforeY
That fine unvexed Virgilian mienG
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These will companion him to nightB
Beyond this iron wintry gloomK
When Shakespeare and Cervantes bidB
The great joy masters give him roomK
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No alien there in speech or moodB
He will pass in one traveller moreY
And portly Ben will smile to seeZ
The velvet jacket at the doorY

Bliss Carman (william)



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