A Rhyme Of The Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GEHEIJKJ LMNMOIPI BJBJCQGQ RRSR TUNU NVOVQQQQ GWBWBBXB YYGZOA2B2A2Pearl Slashed and purple and crimson and | A |
fringed with gray mist of the hills | B |
The pennons of morning advance to the music of | C |
rock fretted rills | B |
The dumb forest quickens to song and the little | D |
gusts shout as they fling | E |
A floor cloth of orchard bloom down for the flash | F |
ing quick feet of the Spring | E |
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To the road gipsy heart thou and I 'Tis the | G |
mad piper Spring who is leading | E |
'Tis the pulse of his piping that throbs through | H |
the brain irresistibly pleading | E |
Full blossomed deep bosomed fain woman light | I |
footed lute throated and fleet | J |
We have drunk of the wine of this Wanderer's song | K |
let us follow his feet | J |
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Like raveled red girdles flung down by some | L |
hoidenish goddess in mirth | M |
The tangled roads reach from rim unto utter | N |
most rim of the earth | M |
We will weave of these strands a strong net we | O |
will snare the bright wings of delight | I |
We will make of these strings a sweet lute that | P |
will shame the low wind harps of night | I |
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The clamor of tongues and the clangor of trades | B |
in the peevish packed street | J |
The arrogant jangling Nothings with iterant dis | B |
sonant beat | J |
The clattering senseless endeavor with dross of | C |
mere gold for its goal | Q |
These have sickened the senses and wearied the | G |
brain and straitened the soul | Q |
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Come forth and be cleansed of the folly of strife | R |
for things worthless of strife | R |
Come forth and gain life and grasp God by fore | S |
going gains worthless of life | R |
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It was thus spake the wizard wildwood low | T |
voiced to the hearkening heart | U |
It was thus sang the jovial hills and the harper | N |
sun bore part | U |
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O woman whose blood as my blood with the fire | N |
of the Spring is aflame | V |
We did well when the red roads called that we | O |
heeded the call and came | V |
Came forth to the sweet wise silence where soul | Q |
may speak sooth unto soul | Q |
Vine wreathed and vagabond Love with the goal | Q |
of Nowhere for our goal | Q |
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What planet crowned Dusk that wanders the | G |
steeps of our firmament there | W |
Hath gems that may match with the dew opals | B |
meshed in thine opulent hair | W |
What wind witch that skims the curled billows | B |
with feet they are fain to caress | B |
Hath sandals so wing'd as thine art with a god | X |
like carelessness | B |
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And dare we not dream this is heaven to wan | Y |
der thus on ever on | Y |
Through the hush heavy valleys of space up the | G |
flushing red slopes of the dawn | Z |
For none that seeks rest shall find rest till he | O |
ceaseth his striving for rest | A2 |
And the gain of the quest is the joy of the road | B2 |
that allures to the quest | A2 |
Don Marquis
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