The Green Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AF| The green roads that end in the forest | A |
| Are strewn with white goose feathers this June | B |
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| Life marks left behind by someone gone to the forest | A |
| To show his track But he has never come back | C |
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| Down each green road a cottage looks at the forest | A |
| Round one the nettle towers two are bathed in flowers | D |
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| An old man along the green road to the forest | A |
| Strays from one from another a child alone | E |
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| In the thicket bordering the forest | A |
| All day long a thrush twiddles his song | F |
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| It is old but the trees are young in the forest | A |
| All but one like a castle keep in the middle deep | G |
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| That oak saw the ages pass in the forest | A |
| They were a host but their memories are lost | H |
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| For the tree is dead all things forget the forest | A |
| Excepting perhaps me when now I see | I |
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| The old man the child the goose feathers at the edge of the forest | A |
| And hear all day long the thrush repeat his song | F |
Edward Thomas
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