Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG HIIH JKKL MHHM NOON PQQP HMMH ARRD STSM HUVH HWWH NXYN ZVVZ A2MMA2 B2C2C2B2

I LOVE roadsA
The goddesses that dwellB
Far along invisibleC
Are my favourite godsD
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Roads go onE
While we forget and areF
Forgotten like a starF
That shoots and is goneG
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On this earth 'tis sureH
We men have not madeI
Anything that doth fadeI
So soon so long endureH
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The hill road wet with rainJ
In the sun would not gleamK
Like a winding streamK
If we trod it not againL
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They are lonelyM
While we sleep lonelierH
For lack of the travellerH
Who is now a dream onlyM
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From dawn's twilightN
And all the clouds like sheepO
On the mountains of sleepO
They wind into the nightN
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The next turn may revealP
Heaven upon the crestQ
The close pine clump at restQ
And black may Hell concealP
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Often footsore neverH
Yet of the road I wearyM
Though long and steep and drearyM
As it winds on for everH
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Helen of the roadsA
The mountain ways of WalesR
And the Mabinogion talesR
Is one of the true godsD
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Abiding in the treesS
The threes and fours so wiseT
The larger companiesS
That by the roadside beM
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And beneath the rafterH
Else uninhabitedU
Excepting by the deadV
And it is her laughterH
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At morn and night I hearH
When the thrush cock singsW
Bright irrelevant thingsW
And when the chanticleerH
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Calls back to their own nightN
Troops that make lonelinessX
With their light footsteps' pressY
As Helen's own are lightN
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Now all roads lead to FranceZ
And heavy is the treadV
Of the living but the deadV
Returning lightly danceZ
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Whatever the road bringA2
To me or take from meM
They keep me companyM
With their patteringA2
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Crowding the solitudeB2
Of the loops over the downsC2
Hushing the roar of townsC2
And their brief multitudeB2

Edward Thomas



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