The Right Of Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE FC GF HI JK LM NO PQ RS TU VW XOIn 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 |
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I saw a girl with one leg | X |
over the rail of a balcony | O |
William Carlos Williams
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