Song Of A Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEDE FFGHHG IJIJ KKLCCL MNMNOMPCPCOM QQIIMMABCABC| A monster taught | A |
| To come to hand | B |
| Amain | C |
| As swift as thought | A |
| Across the land | B |
| The train | C |
| - | |
| The song it sings | D |
| Has an iron sound | E |
| Its iron wings | D |
| Like wheels go round | E |
| - | |
| Crash under bridges | F |
| Flash over ridges | F |
| And vault the downs | G |
| The road is straight | H |
| Nor stile nor gate | H |
| For milestones towns | G |
| - | |
| Voluminous vanishing white | I |
| The steam plume trails | J |
| Parallel streaks of light | I |
| THe polished rails | J |
| - | |
| Oh who can follow | K |
| The little swallow | K |
| The trout of the sky | L |
| But the sun | C |
| Is outrun | C |
| And Time passed by | L |
| - | |
| O'er bosky dens | M |
| By marsh and mead | N |
| Forest and fens | M |
| Embodied speed | N |
| Is clanked and hurled | O |
| O'er rivers and runnels | M |
| And into the earth | P |
| And out again | C |
| In death and birth | P |
| That know no pain | C |
| For the whole round world | O |
| Is a warren of railway tunnels | M |
| - | |
| Hark hark hark | Q |
| It screams and cleaves the dark | Q |
| And the subterranean night | I |
| Is gilt with smoky light | I |
| Then out again apace | M |
| It runs its thundering race | M |
| The monster taught | A |
| To come to hand | B |
| Amain | C |
| That swift as thought | A |
| Speeds through the land | B |
| The train | C |
John Davidson
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Song Of A Train poem by John Davidson
Best Poems of John Davidson