On The Road To Nowhere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF FHIHFJKJABLD MNBNABBBBOPOQRBRSTUT AVWXWYZY| On the road to nowhere | A |
| What wild oats did you sow | B |
| When you left your father's house | C |
| With your cheeks aglow | D |
| Eyes so strained and eager | E |
| To see what you might see | F |
| Were you thief or were you fool | G |
| Or most nobly free | F |
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| Were the tramp days knightly | F |
| True sowing of wild seed | H |
| Did you dare to make the songs | I |
| Vanquished workmen need | H |
| Did you waste much money | F |
| To deck a leper's feast | J |
| Love the truth defy the crowd | K |
| Scandalize the priest | J |
| On the road to nowhere | A |
| What wild oats did you sow | B |
| Stupids find the nowhere road | L |
| Dusty grim and slow | D |
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| Ere their sowing's ended | M |
| They turn them on their track | N |
| Look at the caitiff craven wights | B |
| Repentant hurrying back | N |
| Grown ashamed of nowhere | A |
| Of rags endured for years | B |
| Lust for velvet in their hearts | B |
| Pierced with Mammon's spears | B |
| All but a few fanatics | B |
| Give up their darling goal | O |
| Seek to be as others are | P |
| Stultify the soul | O |
| Reapings now confront them | Q |
| Glut them or destroy | R |
| Curious seeds grain or weeds | B |
| Sown with awful joy | R |
| Hurried is their harvest | S |
| They make soft peace with men | T |
| Pilgrims pass They care not | U |
| Will not tramp again | T |
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| O nowhere golden nowhere | A |
| Sages and fools go on | V |
| To your chaotic ocean | W |
| To your tremendous dawn | X |
| Far in your fair dream haven | W |
| Is nothing or is all | Y |
| They press on singing sowing | Z |
| Wild deeds without recall | Y |
Vachel Lindsay
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