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 BYZYYou hearken fellows Turned aside | A |
Into the road house of the past | B |
The prince of vagabonds is gone | C |
To house among his peers at last | B |
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The stainless gallant gentleman | D |
So glad of life he gave no trace | E |
No hint he even once beheld | B |
The spectre peering in his face | E |
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But gay and modest held the road | B |
Nor feared the Shadow of the Dust | B |
And saw the whole world rich with joy | F |
As every valiant farer must | B |
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I think that old and vasty inn | G |
Will have a welcome guest to night | B |
When Chaucer breaking off some tale | H |
That fills his hearers with delight | B |
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Shall lift up his demure brown eyes | I |
To bid the stranger in and all | J |
Will turn to greet the one on whom | K |
The crystal lot was last to fall | J |
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Keats of the more than mortal tongue | L |
Will take grave Milton by the sleeve | M |
To meet their kin whose woven words | N |
Had elvish music in the weave | M |
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Dear Lamb and excellent Montaigne | G |
Sterne and the credible Defoe | O |
Borrow DeQuincey the great Dean | G |
The sturdy leisurist Thoreau | O |
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The furtive soul whose dark romance | P |
By ghostly door and haunted stair | Q |
Explored the dusty human heart | B |
And the forgotten garrets there | Q |
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The moralist it could not spoil | R |
To hold an empire in his hands | S |
Sir Walter and the brood who sprang | T |
From Homer through a hundred lands | S |
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Singers of songs on all men's lips | U |
Tellers of tales in all men's ears | V |
Movers of hearts that still must beat | B |
To sorrows feigned and fabled tears | W |
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Horace and Omar doubting still | X |
What mystery lurks beyond the seen | G |
Yet blithe and reassured before | Y |
That fine unvexed Virgilian mien | G |
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These will companion him to night | B |
Beyond this iron wintry gloom | K |
When Shakespeare and Cervantes bid | B |
The great joy masters give him room | K |
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No alien there in speech or mood | B |
He will pass in one traveller more | Y |
And portly Ben will smile to see | Z |
The velvet jacket at the door | Y |
Bliss Carman (william)
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