All Night, All Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFG HIJKL CMNOLCP QRSTNUVWX LYKLLZP A2B2C2D2 E2 F2G2E2H2F2I2 J2K2L2L2 M2KM2| I have been one acquainted with the night Robert Frost | A |
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| Rode in the train all night in the sick light A bird | B |
| Flew parallel with a singular will In daydream's moods and | C |
| attitudes | D |
| The other passengers slumped dozed slept read | E |
| Waiting and waiting for place to be displaced | F |
| On the exact track of safety or the rack of accident | G |
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| Looked out at the night unable to distinguish | H |
| Lights in the towns of passage from the yellow lights | I |
| Numb on the ceiling And the bird flew parallel and still | J |
| As the train shot forth the straight line of its whistle | K |
| Forward on the taut tracks piercing empty familiar | L |
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| The bored center of this vision and condition looked and | C |
| looked | M |
| Down through the slick pages of the magazine seeking | N |
| The seen and the unseen and his gaze fell down the well | O |
| Of the great darkness under the slick glitter | L |
| And he was only one among eight million riders and | C |
| readers | P |
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| And all the while under his empty smile the shaking drum | Q |
| Of the long determined passage passed through him | R |
| By his body mimicked and echoed And then the train | S |
| Like a suddenly storming rain began to rush and thresh | T |
| The silent or passive night pressing and impressing | N |
| The patients' foreheads with a tightening like image | U |
| Of the rushing engine proceeded by a shaft of light | V |
| Piercing the dark changing and transforming the silence | W |
| Into a violence of foam sound smoke and succession | X |
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| A bored child went to get a cup of water | L |
| And crushed the cup because the water too was | Y |
| Boring and merely boredom's struggle | K |
| The child returning looked over the shoulder | L |
| Of a man reading until he annoyed the shoulder | L |
| A fat woman yawned and felt the liquid drops | Z |
| Drip down the fleece of many dinners | P |
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| And the bird flew parallel and parallel flew | A2 |
| The black pencil lines of telephone posts crucified | B2 |
| At regular intervals post after post | C2 |
| Of thrice crossed blue belled anonymous trees | D2 |
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| And then the bird cried as if to all of us | E2 |
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| your life your lonely life | F2 |
| What have you ever done with it | G2 |
| And done with the great gift of consciousness | E2 |
| What will you ever do with your life before death's | H2 |
| knife | F2 |
| Provides the answer ultimate and appropriate | I2 |
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| As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls | J2 |
| Falls in a parachute falls endlessly and feel the vast | K2 |
| Draft of the abyss sucking him down and down | L2 |
| An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown | L2 |
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| This is the way that night passes by this | M2 |
| Is the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable | K |
| abyss | M2 |
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