The Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE| I stand on the windy uplands among the hills of Down | A |
| With all the world spread out beneath meadow and sea and town | A |
| And ploughlands on the far off hills that glow with friendly brown | A |
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| And ever across the rolling land to the far horizon line | B |
| Where the blue hills border the misty west I see the white roads twine | B |
| The rare roads and the fair roads that call this heart of mine | B |
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| I see them dip in the valleys and vanish and rise and bend | C |
| From shadowy dell to windswept fell and still to the West they wend | C |
| And over the cold blue ridge at last to the great world's uttermost end | C |
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| And the call of the roads is upon me a desire in my spirit has grown | D |
| To wander forth in the highways 'twixt earth and sky alone | D |
| And seek for the lands no foot has trod and the seas no sail has known | D |
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| For the lands to the west of the evening and east of the morning's birth | E |
| Where the gods unseen in their valleys green are glad at the ends of the earth | E |
| And fear no morrow to bring them sorrow nor night to quench their mirth | E |
C. S. Lewis
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