The Open Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HAGA EIJK GALA MNGO APGP QDRB MSQS PATA| THE roads of the Sea | A |
| Are thronged with merchantmen | B |
| East and West North and South | C |
| They go and come again | D |
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| All precious merchandise | E |
| They bear in their hold | F |
| Lest the people be starving | G |
| In the night and cold | F |
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| Now tell me good merchants | H |
| How this thing can be | A |
| That the white ships are thronging | G |
| The roads of the sea | A |
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| For there's death in the skies | E |
| And there's death on the earth | I |
| And men talked of famine | J |
| And a frozen hearth | K |
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| Yet the ships they go crowding | G |
| The roads of the sea | A |
| They bring home their treasures | L |
| To you and to me | A |
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| O listen good people | M |
| And hearing praise God | N |
| That the watch dogs are keeping | G |
| The ships on their road | O |
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| They sit watchful and steady | A |
| Where the North winds blow | P |
| Sleepless they are keeping | G |
| The roads the ships go | P |
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| In the day in the hour | Q |
| They will spring until then | D |
| Their eyes keep the courses | R |
| Of the merchantmen | B |
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| Forget not good people | M |
| When ye heap the white board | S |
| When ye draw to the hearth fire | Q |
| To praise the Lord | S |
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| That the watch dogs unsleeping | P |
| Keep the roads of the Sea | A |
| Up by the Northern Lights | T |
| Where the great ships be | A |
Katharine Tynan
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