By Train From Berlin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E FGHI J KFLD MNOP Q RSTU| A delicate border A nonexistent country | A |
| The train obligingly dissolves in smoke | B |
| The G I next to me is talking war | C |
| I don't 'know the Asian mind ' he says | D |
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| Moving through old arguments | E |
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| At Potsdam a globe shaped dome | F |
| a pink canal reflecting sepia trees | G |
| we pull next to a broken down old train | H |
| with REICHSBAHN lettered on its flank | I |
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| Thirty years sheer away leaving bare cliff | J |
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| This is a country I don't recognize | K |
| Bone pale girls who have nothing to do with home | F |
| Everyone's taller than me everyone naked | L |
| 'Life's cheap there ' he says | D |
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| But why are we screaming over a track | M |
| which runs between a barbed wire corridor | N |
| And why has it grown so dark outside | O |
| so bright in here | P |
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| that even the pared moon is invisible | Q |
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| In the window we can only see ourselves | R |
| America we carry with us | S |
| two scared people talking death | T |
| on a train which can't stop | U |
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