Where Three Roads Joined Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ABAB| Where three roads joined it was green and fair | A |
| And over a gate was the sun glazed sea | B |
| And life laughed sweet when I halted there | A |
| Yet there I never again would be | B |
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| I am sure those branchways are brooding now | C |
| With a wistful blankness upon their face | D |
| While the few mute passengers notice how | C |
| Spectre beridden is the place | D |
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| Which nightly sighs like a laden soul | E |
| And grieves that a pair in bliss for a spell | F |
| Not far from thence should have let it roll | E |
| Away from them down a plumbless well | F |
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| While the phasm of him who fared starts up | G |
| And of her who was waiting him sobs from near | H |
| As they haunt there and drink the wormwood cup | G |
| They filled for themselves when their sky was clear | H |
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| Yes I see those roads now rutted and bare | A |
| While over the gate is no sun glazed sea | B |
| And though life laughed when I halted there | A |
| It is where I never again would be | B |
Thomas Hardy
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