The Right Of Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE FC GF HI JK LM NO PQ RS TU VW XO| In passing with my mind | A |
| on nothing in the world | B |
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| but the right of way | C |
| I enjoy on the road by | D |
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| virtue of the law | E |
| I saw | E |
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| an elderly man who | F |
| smiled and looked away | C |
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| to the north past a house | G |
| a woman in blue | F |
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| who was laughing and | H |
| leaning forward to look up | I |
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| into the man's half | J |
| averted face | K |
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| and a boy of eight who was | L |
| looking at the middle of | M |
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| the man's belly | N |
| at a watchchain | O |
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| The supreme importance | P |
| of this nameless spectacle | Q |
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| sped me by them | R |
| without a word | S |
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| Why bother where I went | T |
| for I went spinning on the | U |
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| four wheels of my car | V |
| along the wet road until | W |
| - | |
| I saw a girl with one leg | X |
| over the rail of a balcony | O |
William Carlos Williams
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