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 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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