The Long Race Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBC DCDCAD| Up the old hill to the old house again | A |
| Where fifty years ago the friend was young | B |
| Who should be waiting somewhere there among | B |
| Old things that least remembered most remain | C |
| He toiled on with a pleasure that was pain | C |
| To think how soon asunder would be flung | B |
| The curtain half a century had hung | B |
| Between the two ambitions they had slain | C |
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| They dredged an hour for words and then were done | D |
| Good bye You have the same old weather vane | C |
| Your little horse that's always on the run | D |
| And all the way down back to the next train | C |
| Down the old hill to the old road again | A |
| It seemed as if the little horse had won | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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