The River And The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHIHAJAK ALALADADCKCMJNJNOPOP QRMMQSMMAHAHCTCT| THE 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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