At The Turn Of The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN CCHH| THE glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume | A |
| The purple hued asters still linger in bloom | A |
| The birch is bright yellow the sumachs are red | B |
| The maples like torches aflame overhead | B |
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| But what if the joy of the summer is past | C |
| And winter's wild herald is blowing his blast | C |
| For me dull November is sweeter than May | D |
| For my love is its sunshine she meets me to day | D |
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| Will she come Will the ring dove return to her nest | E |
| Will the needle swing back from the east or the west | E |
| At the stroke of the hour she will be at her gate | F |
| A friend may prove laggard love never comes late | F |
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| Do I see her afar in the distance Not yet | G |
| Too early Too early She could not forget | G |
| When I cross the old bridge where the brook overflowed | H |
| She will flash full in sight at the turn of the road | H |
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| I pass the low wall where the ivy entwines | I |
| I tread the brown pathway that leads through the pines | I |
| I haste by the boulder that lies in the field | J |
| Where her promise at parting was lovingly sealed | J |
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| Will she come by the hillside or round through the wood | K |
| Will she wear her brown dress or her mantle and hood | K |
| The minute draws near but her watch may go wrong | L |
| My heart will be asking What keeps her so long | L |
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| Why doubt for a moment More shame if I do | M |
| Why question Why tremble Are angels more true | M |
| She would come to the lover who calls her his own | N |
| Though she trod in the track of a whirling cyclone | N |
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| I crossed the old bridge ere the minute had passed | C |
| I looked lo my Love stood before me at last | C |
| Her eyes how they sparkled her cheeks how they glowed | H |
| As we met face to face at the turn of the road | H |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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