The Engine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Into the gloom of the deep dark night | A |
| With panting breath and a startled scream | B |
| Swift as a bird in sudden flight | A |
| Darts this creature of steel and steam | B |
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| Awful dangers are lurking nigh | C |
| Rocks and chasms are near the track | D |
| But straight by the light of its great white eye | C |
| It speeds through the shadows dense and black | D |
| - | |
| Terrible thoughts and fierce desires | E |
| Trouble its mad heart many an hour | F |
| Where burn and smoulder the hidden fires | E |
| Coupled ever with might and power | F |
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| It hates as a wild horse hates the rein | G |
| The narrow track by vale and hill | H |
| And shrieks with a cry of startled pain | G |
| And longs to follow its own wild will | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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