The River And The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHIHAJAK ALALADADCKCMJNJNOPOP QRMMQSMMAHAHCTCTTHE merrymaking's over | A |
The riverside is still | B |
The Sun a radiant rover | A |
Gone down behind the hill | B |
The red Road goes awinding | C |
Along the riverside | D |
The River no man minding | C |
Winds on to meet the tide | D |
O Naiad of green places | E |
I pray you pause and say | F |
How many pretty faces | E |
Looked down on you to day | F |
The River runs in silence | G |
A fern frond is her load | H |
Just here and just a mile hence | I |
She curves to kiss the road | H |
And now the kiss is over | A |
And now the tryst is done | J |
By flats of fern and clover | A |
The River ripples on | K |
Again the Road turns to her | A |
Red winding through the green | L |
The Road would pause and woo her | A |
But gray rocks stand between | L |
And here he rounds a boulder | A |
And hurries to her side | D |
The River turns her shoulder | A |
She will not be his bride | D |
O fickle River straying | C |
Through green lands on and on | K |
A fern tree heard you saying | C |
'The Road will come anon ' | M |
Not so but you will waken | J |
To lonely days and sore | N |
The Road a vow has taken | J |
To play Love's fool no more | N |
On high the sunset lingers | O |
With one still star above | P |
And there the merry singers | O |
Sing silverly of Love | P |
And now in distance dewy | Q |
They halt awhile and so | R |
Wave hands with 'Coo ee Coo ee ' | M |
Ho laggard down below ' | M |
If she should cease to worry | Q |
And say 'I love but you' | S |
'O hurry hurry hurry ' | M |
And 'Adieu Adieu Adieu ' | M |
This one last chance I give her | A |
To lighten my heart's load | H |
And if she play the River | A |
Then I shall prove the Road | H |
I caught her heard her sighing | C |
And felt the moment's charm | T |
'Tis sweet when day is dying | C |
To walk so arm in arm | T |
Roderic Quinn
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