The Road To Roundabout Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEEEFGHIIIH JKLKMKIIIKNOIIIP LQRQRQRRRQIHIIIHSome say that Guy of Warwick | A |
The man that killed the Cow | B |
And brake the mighty Boar alive | C |
Beyond the bridge at Slough | D |
Went up against a Loathly Worm | E |
That wasted all the Downs | F |
And so the roads they twist and squirm | E |
If a may be allowed the term | E |
From the writhing of the stricken Worm | E |
That died in seven towns | F |
I see no scientific proof | G |
That this idea is sound | H |
And I should say they wound about | I |
To find the town of Roundabout | I |
The merry town of Roundabout | I |
That makes the world go round | H |
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Some say that Robin Goodfellow | J |
Whose lantern lights the meads | K |
To steal a phrase Sir Walter Scott | L |
In heaven no longer needs | K |
Such dance around the trysting place | M |
The moonstruck lover leads | K |
Which superstition I should scout | I |
There is more faith in honest doubt | I |
As Tennyson has pointed out | I |
Than in those nasty creeds | K |
But peace and righteousness St John | N |
In Roundabout can kiss | O |
And since that's all that's found about | I |
The pleasant town of Roundabout | I |
The roads they simply bound about | I |
To find out where it is | P |
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Some say that when Sir Lancelot | L |
Went forth to find the Grail | Q |
Grey Merlin wrinkled up the roads | R |
For hope that he would fail | Q |
All roads lead back to Lyonesse | R |
And Camelot in the Vale | Q |
I cannot yield assent to this | R |
Extravagant hypothesis | R |
The plain shrewd Briton will dismiss | R |
Such rumours Daily Mail | Q |
But in the streets of Roundabout | I |
Are no such factions found | H |
Or theories to expound about | I |
Or roll upon the ground about | I |
In the happy town of Roundabout | I |
That makes the world go round | H |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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