Scenic Route Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF GHIJHKLM NOPQR STH| For Lucy who called them ghost houses | A |
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| Someone was always leaving | B |
| and never coming back | C |
| The wooden houses wait like old wives | D |
| along this road they are everywhere | E |
| abandoned leaning turning gray | F |
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| Someone always traded | G |
| the lonely beauty | H |
| of hemlock and stony lakeshore | I |
| for survival packed up his life | J |
| and drove off to the city | H |
| In the yards the apple trees | K |
| keep hanging on but the fruit | L |
| grows smaller year by year | M |
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| When we come this way again | N |
| the trees will have gone wild | O |
| the houses collapsed not even worth | P |
| the human act of breaking in | Q |
| Fields will have taken over | R |
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| What we will recognize | S |
| is the wind the same fierce wind | T |
| which has no history | H |
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