The Locomotive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCC DDDDEE FFGGHHIJKKLMNN OO KKPQ RRDD SSTTUUVVWWXXYYEEZZFF A2B2TTTX| A big locomotive has pulled into town | A |
| Heavy humungus with sweat rolling down | A |
| A plump jumbo olive | B |
| Huffing and puffing and panting and smelly | C |
| Fire belches forth from her fat cast iron belly | C |
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| Poof how she's burning | D |
| Oof how she's boiling | D |
| Puff how she's churning | D |
| Huff how she's toiling | D |
| She's fully exhausted and all out of breath | E |
| Yet the coalman continues to stoke her to death | E |
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| Numerous wagons she tugs down the track | F |
| Iron and steel monsters hitched up to her back | F |
| All filled with people and other things too | G |
| The first carries cattle then horses not few | G |
| The third car with corpulent people is filled | H |
| Eating fat frankfurters all freshly grilled | H |
| The fourth car is packed to the hilt with bananas | I |
| The fifth has a cargo of six grand pi an as | J |
| The sixth wagon carries a cannon of steel | K |
| With heavy iron girders beneath every wheel | K |
| The seventh has tables oak cupboards with plates | L |
| While an elephant bear two giraffes fill the eighth | M |
| The ninth contains nothing but well fattened swine | N |
| In the tenth bags and boxes now isn't that fine | N |
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| There must be at least forty cars in a row | O |
| And what they all carry I simply don't know | O |
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| But if one thousand athletes with muscles of steel | K |
| Each ate one thousand cutlets in one giant meal | K |
| And each one exerted as much as he could | P |
| They'd never quite manage to lift such a load | Q |
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| First a toot | R |
| Then a hoot | R |
| Steam is churning | D |
| Wheels are turning | D |
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| More slowly than turtles with freight on their backs | S |
| The drowsy steam engine sets off down the tracks | S |
| She chugs and she tugs at her wagons with strain | T |
| As wheel after wheel slowly turns on the train | T |
| She doubles her effort and quickens her pace | U |
| And rambles and scrambles to keep up the race | U |
| Oh whither oh whither go forward at will | V |
| And chug along over the bridge up the hill | V |
| Through mountains and tunnels and meadows and woods | W |
| Now hurry now hurry deliver your goods | W |
| Keep up your tempo now push along push along | X |
| Chug along tug along tug along chug along | X |
| Lightly and sprightly she carries her freight | Y |
| Like a ping pong ball bouncing without any weight | Y |
| Not heavy equipment exhausted to death | E |
| But a little tin toy just a light puff of breath | E |
| Oh whither oh whither you'll tell me I trust | Z |
| What is it what is it that gives you your thrust | Z |
| What gives you momentum to roll down the track | F |
| It's hot steam that gives me my clickety clack | F |
| Hot steam from the boiler through tubes to the pistons | A2 |
| The pistons then push at the wheels from short distance | B2 |
| They drive and they push and the train starts a swooshin' | T |
| 'Cuz steam on the pistons keeps pushin' and pushin' | T |
| The wheels start a rattlin' clatterin' chatterin' | T |
| Chug along tug along chug along tug along | X |
Julian Tuwim
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