The Turn Of The Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHIHIJKJK LMLMNONOPCPEQRQRSTST UVUVHIHIWBVB| WHERE confident calm I strode | A |
| I walk with hesitant feet | B |
| For at yonder turn of the road | A |
| What shall I meet | B |
| The youth of the day has gone | C |
| And my shadow goes before | D |
| I know that the road runs on | E |
| I know no more | D |
| I have travelled a goodly way | F |
| As one at a glance may see | G |
| Since the East and the break o' day | F |
| Called out to me | G |
| Though the highway be hard to miss | H |
| With its signs and stones and such | I |
| The worst of the road is this | H |
| It turns too much | I |
| For a part of its length it flows | J |
| Too brief is that stretch alas | K |
| 'Twixt hedges of palm and rose | J |
| O'er fern and grass | K |
| The butterfly fancies flit | L |
| On their lit wings gossamer frail | M |
| And a host of roysterers sit | L |
| At cakes and ale | M |
| With the flight of their glory hour | N |
| The Fancies flutter and die | O |
| And the nectared heart of the flower | N |
| Grows sere and dry | O |
| Though the cakes and ale are done | P |
| And the roysterer's moment gone | C |
| Yet under the slanting sun | P |
| The road winds on | E |
| Good bye to the flower and fern | Q |
| And the hedges at each grass side | R |
| Maybe at the next road turn | Q |
| New pleasures hide | R |
| New pleasures 'Tis turned and lo | S |
| Hot miles and a driving dust | T |
| 'Twixt trees that are grey as woe | S |
| Gnarled limbs out thrust | T |
| Yet Hope is a bright allure | U |
| A light in the hearts of men | V |
| At the end of a league for sure | U |
| 'Twill turn again | V |
| Though the highway be hard to miss | H |
| With its signs and stones and such | I |
| The best of the road is this | H |
| It turns so much | I |
| Towards the turn of the roadway you | W |
| I walk with hesitant feet | B |
| When I come to the turn anon | V |
| What shall I meet | B |
Roderic Quinn
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