The Journey Of A Poem Compared To All The Sad Variety Of Travel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB AB CDEB FGBDBBBDHI FJIBA poem moves forward | A |
Like the passages and percussions of trains in progress | B |
A pattern of recurrence a hammer of repetetiveoccurrence | B |
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a slow less and less heard | A |
low thunder under all passengers | B |
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Steel sounds tripping and tripled and | C |
Grinding revolving gripping turning and returning | D |
as the flung carpet of the wide countryside spreads out on | E |
each side in billows | B |
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And in isolation rolled out white house red barn squat silo | F |
Pasture hill meadow and woodland pasture | G |
And the striped poles step fast past the train windows | B |
Second after second takes snapshots clicking | D |
Into the dangled boxes of glinting windows | B |
Snapshots and selections rejections at angles of shadows | B |
A small town a shop's sign GARAGE and then white gates | B |
Where waiting cars wait with the unrest of trembling | D |
Breathing hard and idling until the slow descent | H |
Of the red cones of sunset a dead march a slow tread and heavy | I |
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Of the slowed horses of Apollo | F |
Until the slowed horses of Apollo go over the horizon | J |
And all things are parked slowly or willingly | I |
into the customary or at random places | B |
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