Song Of The Rail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB CDCECD FGFFFG HAHHHA| Oh an ugly thing is an iron rail | A |
| Black with its face to the dust | B |
| But it carries a message where winged things fail | A |
| It crosses the mountains and catches the trail | A |
| While the winds and the sea make sport of a sail | A |
| Oh a rail is a friend to trust | B |
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| The iron rail with its face to the sod | C |
| Is only a bar of ore | D |
| Yet it speeds where never a foot has trod | C |
| And the narrow path where it leads grows broad | E |
| And it speaks to the world in the voice of God | C |
| That echoes from shore to shore | D |
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| Though the iron rail on the earth down flung | F |
| Seems kin to the loam and the soil | G |
| Wherever its high shrill note is sung | F |
| Out of the jungle fair homes have sprung | F |
| And the voices of babel find one tongue | F |
| In the common language of toil | G |
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| Of priest and warrior and conquering king | H |
| Of Knights of the Holy Grail | A |
| Of wonders of winter and glories of spring | H |
| Always and ever the poets sing | H |
| But the great God Force in a lowly thing | H |
| I sing in my song of the rail | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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