The Trains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACDE FGBFBHBCD IDIE| Tunnelling through the night the trains pass | A |
| in a splendour of power with a sound like thunder | B |
| shaking the orchards waking | C |
| the young from a dream scattering like glass | A |
| the old mens' sleep laying | C |
| a black trail over the still bloom of the orchards | D |
| the trains go north with guns | E |
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| Strange primitive piece of flesh the heart laid quiet | F |
| hearing their cry pierce through its thin walled cave | G |
| recalls the forgotten tiger | B |
| and leaps awake in its old panic riot | F |
| and how shall mind be sober | B |
| since blood's red thread still binds us fast in history | H |
| Tiger you walk through all our past and future | B |
| troubling the children's sleep' laying | C |
| a reeking trail across our dreams of orchards | D |
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| Racing on iron errands the trains go by | I |
| and over the white acres of our orchards | D |
| hurl their wild summoning cry their animal cry | I |
| the trains go north with guns | E |
Judith Wright
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