On The March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCB EBEB ABAB FBFB GBGB HBHB IBJB KBIB| WE are out on the open road | A |
| Through the low west window a cold light flows | B |
| On the floor where never my numb feet trode | A |
| Before onward the strange road goes | B |
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| Soon the spaces of the western sky | C |
| With shutters of sombre cloud will close | D |
| But we'll still be together this road and I | C |
| Together wherever the long road goes | B |
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| The wind chases by us and over the corn | E |
| Pale shadows flee from us as if from their foes | B |
| Like a snake we thresh on the long forlorn | E |
| Land as onward the long road goes | B |
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| From the sky the low tired moon fades out | A |
| Through the poplars the night wind blows | B |
| Pale sleepy phantoms are tossed about | A |
| As the wind asks whither the wan road goes | B |
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| Away in the distance wakes a lamp | F |
| Inscrutable small lights glitter in rows | B |
| But they come no nearer and still we tramp | F |
| Onward wherever the strange road goes | B |
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| Beat after beat falls sombre and dull | G |
| The wind is unchanging not one of us knows | B |
| What will be in the final lull | G |
| When we find the place where this dead road goes | B |
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| For something must come since we pass and pass | H |
| Along in the coiled convulsive throes | B |
| Of this marching along with the invisible grass | H |
| That goes wherever this old road goes | B |
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| Perhaps we shall come to oblivion | I |
| Perhaps we shall march till our tired toes | B |
| Tread over the edge of the pit and we're gone | J |
| Down the endless slope where the last road goes | B |
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| If so let us forge ahead straight on | K |
| If we're going to sleep the sleep with those | B |
| That fall forever knowing none | I |
| Of this land whereon the wrong road goes | B |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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