Song of the Open Road
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I’ll never see a tree at all.
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Submitted by RobertHaigh on August 26, 2020
Modified on April 29, 2023
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| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 123 |
| Words | 25 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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