Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The Crooked Footpath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN HOHO PDPD

AH here it is the sliding railA
That marks the old remembered spotB
The gap that struck our school boy trailA
The crooked path across the lotB
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It left the road by school and churchC
A pencilled shadow nothing moreD
That parted from the silver birchC
And ended at the farm house doorD
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No line or compass traced its planE
With frequent bends to left or rightF
In aimless wayward curves it ranE
But always kept the door in sightF
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The gabled porch with woodbine greenG
The broken millstone at the sillH
Though many a rood might stretch betweenG
The truant child could see them stillH
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No rocks across the pathway lieI
No fallen trunk is o'er it thrownJ
And yet it winds we know not whyI
And turns as if for tree or stoneJ
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Perhaps some lover trod the wayK
With shaking knees and leaping heartL
And so it often runs astrayK
With sinuous sweep or sudden startL
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Or one perchance with clouded brainM
From some unholy banquet reeledN
And since our devious steps maintainM
His track across the trodden fieldN
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Nay deem not thus no earthborn willH
Could ever trace a faultless lineO
Our truest steps are human stillH
To walk unswerving were divineO
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Truants from love we dream of wrathP
Oh rather let us trust the moreD
Through all the wanderings of the pathP
We still can see our Father's doorD

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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