Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG HIIH JKKL MHHM NOON PQQP HMMH ARRD STSM HUVH HWWH NXYN ZVVZ A2MMA2 B2C2C2B2I LOVE roads | A |
The goddesses that dwell | B |
Far along invisible | C |
Are my favourite gods | D |
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Roads go on | E |
While we forget and are | F |
Forgotten like a star | F |
That shoots and is gone | G |
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On this earth 'tis sure | H |
We men have not made | I |
Anything that doth fade | I |
So soon so long endure | H |
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The hill road wet with rain | J |
In the sun would not gleam | K |
Like a winding stream | K |
If we trod it not again | L |
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They are lonely | M |
While we sleep lonelier | H |
For lack of the traveller | H |
Who is now a dream only | M |
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From dawn's twilight | N |
And all the clouds like sheep | O |
On the mountains of sleep | O |
They wind into the night | N |
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The next turn may reveal | P |
Heaven upon the crest | Q |
The close pine clump at rest | Q |
And black may Hell conceal | P |
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Often footsore never | H |
Yet of the road I weary | M |
Though long and steep and dreary | M |
As it winds on for ever | H |
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Helen of the roads | A |
The mountain ways of Wales | R |
And the Mabinogion tales | R |
Is one of the true gods | D |
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Abiding in the trees | S |
The threes and fours so wise | T |
The larger companies | S |
That by the roadside be | M |
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And beneath the rafter | H |
Else uninhabited | U |
Excepting by the dead | V |
And it is her laughter | H |
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At morn and night I hear | H |
When the thrush cock sings | W |
Bright irrelevant things | W |
And when the chanticleer | H |
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Calls back to their own night | N |
Troops that make loneliness | X |
With their light footsteps' press | Y |
As Helen's own are light | N |
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Now all roads lead to France | Z |
And heavy is the tread | V |
Of the living but the dead | V |
Returning lightly dance | Z |
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Whatever the road bring | A2 |
To me or take from me | M |
They keep me company | M |
With their pattering | A2 |
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Crowding the solitude | B2 |
Of the loops over the downs | C2 |
Hushing the roar of towns | C2 |
And their brief multitude | B2 |
Edward Thomas
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