The Sign-post Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK HHLLHHMMNN| The dim sea glints chill The white sun is shy | A |
| And the skeleton weeds and the never dry | A |
| Rough long grasses keep white with frost | B |
| At the hill top by the finger post | C |
| The smoke of the traveller's joy is puffed | D |
| Over hawthorn berry and hazel tuft | D |
| I read the sign Which way shall I go | E |
| A voice says You would not have doubted so | E |
| At twenty Another voice gentle with scorn | F |
| Says At twenty you wished you had never been born | F |
| One hazel lost a leaf of gold | G |
| From a tuft at the tip when the first voice told | G |
| The other he wished to know what 'twould be | H |
| To be sixty by this same post You shall see | H |
| He laughed and I had to join his laughter | I |
| You shall see but either before or after | I |
| Whatever happens it must befall | J |
| A mouthful of earth to remedy all | J |
| Regrets and wishes shall be freely given | K |
| And if there be a flaw in that heaven | K |
| 'Twill be freedom to wish and your wish may be | H |
| To be here or anywhere talking to me | H |
| No matter what the weather on earth | L |
| At any age between death and birth | L |
| To see what day or night can be | H |
| The sun and the frost tha land and the sea | H |
| Summer Winter Autumn Spring | M |
| With a poor man of any sort down to a king | M |
| Standing upright out in the air | N |
| Wondering where he shall journey O where | N |
Edward Thomas
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