Road And Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFBGHIJKLMNCO PQR STNNU VOWXYZOA2B2C2D2E2F2G 2 D2H2OD2I2J2K2 L2M2N2D2O2 M2P2D2D2D2 D2| I shall go away | A |
| To the brown hills the quiet ones | B |
| The vast the mountainous the rolling | C |
| Sun fired and drowsy | D |
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| My horse snuffs delicately | D |
| At the strange wind | E |
| He settles to a swinging trot his hoofs tramp the dust | F |
| The road winds straightens | B |
| Slashes a marsh | G |
| Shoulders out a bridge | H |
| Then | I |
| Again the hills | J |
| Unchanged innumerable | K |
| Bowing huge round backs | L |
| Holding secret immense converse | M |
| In gusty voices | N |
| Fruitful fecund toiling | C |
| Like yoked black oxen | O |
| - | |
| The clouds pass like great slow thoughts | P |
| And vanish | Q |
| In the intense blue | R |
| - | |
| My horse lopes the saddle creaks and sways | S |
| A thousand glittering spears of sun slant from on high | T |
| The immensity the spaces | N |
| Are like the spaces | N |
| Between star and star | U |
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| The hills sleep | V |
| If I put my hand on one | O |
| I would feel the vast heave of its breath | W |
| I would start away before it awakened | X |
| And shook the world from its shoulders | Y |
| A cicada's cry deepens the hot silence | Z |
| The hills open | O |
| To show a slope of poppies | A2 |
| Ardent noble heroic | B2 |
| A flare a great flame of orange | C2 |
| Giving sleepy brittle scent | D2 |
| That stings the lungs | E2 |
| A creeping wind slips through them like a ferret they bow and dance | F2 |
| answering Beauty's voice | G2 |
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| The horse whinnies I dismount | D2 |
| And tie him to the grey worn fence | H2 |
| I set myself against the javelins of grass and sun | O |
| And climb the rounded breast | D2 |
| That flows like a sea wave | I2 |
| The summit crackles with heat there is no shelter no hollow from | J2 |
| the flagellating glare | K2 |
| - | |
| I lie down and look at the sky shading my eyes | L2 |
| My body becomes strange the sun takes it and changes it it does not feel | M2 |
| it is like the body of another | N2 |
| The air blazes The air is diamond | D2 |
| Small noises move among the grass | O2 |
| - | |
| Blackly | M2 |
| A hawk mounts mounts in the inane | P2 |
| Seeking the star road | D2 |
| Seeking the end | D2 |
| But there is no end | D2 |
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| Here in this light there is no end | D2 |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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