To The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB ABABAAAB DBDBDDDBCool is the wind for the summer is waning | A |
Who 's for the road | B |
Sun flecked and soft where the dead leaves are raining | A |
Who 's for the road | B |
Knapsack and alpenstock press hand and shoulder | C |
Prick of the brier and roll of the boulder | C |
This be your lot till the season grow older | C |
Who 's for the road | B |
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Up and away in the hush of the morning | A |
Who 's for the road | B |
Vagabond he all conventions a scorning | A |
Who 's for the road | B |
Music of warblers so merrily singing | A |
Draughts from the rill from the roadside up springing | A |
Nectar of grapes from the vines lowly swinging | A |
These on the road | B |
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Now every house is a hut or a hovel | D |
Come to the road | B |
Mankind and moles in the dark love to grovel | D |
But to the road | B |
Throw off the loads that are bending you double | D |
Love is for life only labor is trouble | D |
Truce to the town whose best gift is a bubble | D |
Come to the road | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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