Tommies In The Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFG GHHG IJJI KIIK LMMN OGGO PQQP| THE SUN SHINES | A |
| The coltsfoot flowers along the railway banks | B |
| Shine like flat coin which Jove in thanks | B |
| Strews each side the lines | A |
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| A steeple | C |
| In purple elms daffodils | D |
| Sparkle beneath luminous hills | D |
| Beyond and no people | C |
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| England Oh Dana | E |
| To this spring of cosmic gold | F |
| That falls on your lap of mould | F |
| What then are we | G |
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| What are we | G |
| Clay coloured who roll in fatigue | H |
| As the train falls league by league | H |
| From our destiny | G |
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| A hand is over my face | I |
| A cold hand I peep between the fingers | J |
| To watch the world that lingers | J |
| Behind yet keeps pace | I |
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| Always there as I peep | K |
| Between the fingers that cover my face | I |
| Which then is it that falls from its place | I |
| And rolls down the steep | K |
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| Is it the train | L |
| That falls like meteorite | M |
| Backward into space to alight | M |
| Never again | N |
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| Or is it the illusory world | O |
| That falls from reality | G |
| As we look Or are we | G |
| Like a thunderbolt hurled | O |
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| One or another | P |
| Is lost since we fall apart | Q |
| Endlessly in one motion depart | Q |
| From each other | P |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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