A Promised Fast Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH AA| I turned my eyes upon the Future's scroll | A |
| And saw its pictured prophecies unroll | A |
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| I saw that magical life laden train | B |
| Flash its long glories o'er Nebraska's plain | B |
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| I saw it smoothly up the mountain glide | C |
| 'O happy happy passengers ' I cried | C |
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| For Pleasure singing drowned the engine's roar | D |
| And Hope on joyous pinions flew before | D |
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| Then dived the train adown the sunset slope | E |
| Pleasure was silent and unseen was Hope | E |
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| Crashes and shrieks attested the decay | F |
| That greed had wrought upon that iron way | F |
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| The rusted rails broke down the rotting ties | G |
| And clouds of flying spikes obscured the skies | G |
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| My coward eyes I drew away distressed | H |
| And fixed them on the terminus to West | H |
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| Where soon its melancholy tale to tell | A |
| One bloody car wheel wabbled in and fell | A |
Ambrose Bierce
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