Song Of The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EFFGD HHHHD HHHHD HHHHD IJJID| I am a Road a good road fair and smooth and broad | A |
| And I link with my beautiful tether | B |
| Town and Country together | B |
| Like a ribbon rolled on the earth from the reel of God | C |
| Oh great the life of a Road | D |
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| I am a Road a long road leading on and on | E |
| And I cry to the world to follow | F |
| Past meadow and hill and hollow | F |
| Through desolate night to the open gates of dawn | G |
| Oh bold the life of a Road | D |
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| I am a Road a kind road shaped by strong hands | H |
| I make strange cities neighbours | H |
| The poor grow rich with my labours | H |
| And beauty and comfort follow me through the lands | H |
| Oh glad the life of a Road | D |
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| I am a Road a wise road knowing all men's ways | H |
| And I know how each heart reaches | H |
| For the things dear Nature teaches | H |
| And I am the path that leads into green young Mays | H |
| Oh sweet the life of a Road | D |
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| I am a Road and I speed away from the slums | H |
| Away from desolate places | H |
| Away from unused spaces | H |
| Wherever I go there order from chaos comes | H |
| Oh brave the life of a Road | D |
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| I am a Road and I would make the whole world one | I |
| I would give hope to duty | J |
| And cover the earth with beauty | J |
| Do you not see O men how all this might be done | I |
| So vast the power of the Road | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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