The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGCG HIJI KLMN OPQR| Down into the ravine then forward | A |
| Up the embankment to the top | B |
| The ribbon of the road runs snaking | C |
| Through wood and field without a stop | B |
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| By all the precepts of perspective | D |
| Well surfaced highway windings rush | E |
| Among the fields among the meadows | F |
| Not raising dust nor stuck in slush | E |
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| The peaceful pond nearby ignoring | C |
| On which a duck with ducklings swam | G |
| The road once more is forward soaring | C |
| On having crossed and left the dam | G |
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| Now down a slope again it hastens | H |
| Now on and upwards in a climb | I |
| As only life maybe is meant to | J |
| Strain up and onward all the time | I |
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| Through thousands of unheard of fancies | K |
| Through times and countries climb and fall | L |
| Through helps and hindrances it races | M |
| Relentless too towards a goal | N |
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| And this is to have lived your fullest | O |
| Experienced all at home abroad | P |
| Just as the landscape now is livened | Q |
| By twists and turnings of the road | R |
Boris Pasternak
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