The Path Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMJNOPQRG BS| RUNNING along a bank a parapet | A |
| That saves from the precipitous wood below | B |
| The level road there is a path It serves | C |
| Children for looking down the long smooth steep | D |
| Between the legs of beech and yew to where | E |
| A fallen tree checks the sight while men and women | F |
| Content themselves with the road and what they see | G |
| Over the bank and what the children tell | H |
| The path winding like silver trickles on | I |
| Bordered and even invaded by thinnest moss | J |
| That tries to cover roots and crumbling chalk | K |
| With gold olive and emerald but in vain | L |
| The children wear it They have flattened the bank | M |
| On top and silvered it between the moss | J |
| With the current of their feet year after year | N |
| But the road is houseless and leads not to school | O |
| To see a child is rare there and the eye | P |
| Has but the road the wood that overhangs | Q |
| And underyawns it and the path that looks | R |
| As if it led on to some legendary | G |
| Or fancied place where men have wished to go | B |
| And stay till sudden it ends where the wood ends | S |
Edward Thomas
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