The Night Express Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML HNON PFQF IRDR STOT UVWV XYOY ZIA2I B2C2IC2 D2E2OE2 IF2G2F2 H2I2II2 IJ2OJ2 NK2IK2 L2M2DM2| Out through the hills of midnight | A |
| Hurtling and thundering on | B |
| The night express from the outer world | C |
| Speeds for the open of dawn | D |
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| Out of the past and gloom wrack | E |
| Out of the dim and yore | F |
| Freighted as train or caravan | G |
| Was never freighted before | F |
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| Built when the Sphinx's query | H |
| Was new on the lips of peace | I |
| Hurled through the aching and hollow years | J |
| Till time shall have release | I |
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| Stealing and swift as a shadow | K |
| Sinuous urging and blind | L |
| Unpent as a joy or the flight of a bird | M |
| With oblivion behind | L |
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| Down to the morrow country | H |
| Into the unknown land | N |
| And the Driver grips the throttle bar | O |
| Our lives are in his hand | N |
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| The sleeping hills awake | P |
| A tremor a dread a roar | F |
| The terror is flying is come is past | Q |
| The hills can sleep once more | F |
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| A moment the silence throbs | I |
| The dark has a pulse of fire | R |
| And then the wonder of time is gone | D |
| A wraith and a desire | R |
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| Demonish toiling grim | S |
| In the ruddy furnace flare | T |
| While the Driver fingers the throttle bar | O |
| Who stands at his elbow there | T |
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| Can it be this thing like a shred | U |
| Of the firmament torn away | V |
| Is a boarded train that Death and his crew | W |
| Consorted to waylay | V |
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| His wreckers grinning and lean | X |
| Are lurking at every curve | Y |
| But the Driver plays with the throttle bar | O |
| He has the iron nerve | Y |
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| We are travelling safe and warm | Z |
| With our little baggage of cares | I |
| Why tease the peril that yet would come | A2 |
| Unbidden and unawares | I |
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| The lonely are lonely still | B2 |
| And the friend has another friend | C2 |
| Only the idle heart inquires | I |
| The distance and the end | C2 |
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| We pant up the climbing grade | D2 |
| And coast on the tangent mile | E2 |
| While the Driver toys with the throttle bar | O |
| And gathers the track in his smile | E2 |
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| The dreamer weary of dreams | I |
| The lover by love released | F2 |
| Stricken and whole and eager and sad | G2 |
| Beauty and waif and priest | F2 |
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| All these adventure forth | H2 |
| Strangers though side by side | I2 |
| With the tramp of time in the roaring wheels | I |
| And haste in their shadowy stride | I2 |
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| The star that races the hills | I |
| Shows yet the night is deep | J2 |
| But the Driver humors the throttle bar | O |
| So you and I may sleep | J2 |
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| For He of the sleepless hand | N |
| Will drive till the night is done | K2 |
| Will watch till morning springs from the sea | I |
| And the rails stand gold in the sun | K2 |
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| Then he will slow to a stop | L2 |
| The tread of the driving rod | M2 |
| When the night express rolls into the dawn | D |
| For the Driver's name is God | M2 |
Bliss Carman (william)
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