Train Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAC DEFG HIJKLAM NOMPQRSTUJAV| After Max Ernst's 'Europe after the Rain' | A |
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| In the dark | B |
| each sits alone | A |
| clutching his flag | C |
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| I have more than my one death | D |
| to attend to | E |
| there is a sickness about | F |
| and the magician has vanished | G |
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| But I sit with my twenty six years | H |
| spread on my palms | I |
| and I wait for the silence | J |
| when the programme is interrupted | K |
| and the speakers have no script | L |
| And I think how to carry my children | A |
| into the sewers | M |
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| Roll up the cities | N |
| Let the window explode | O |
| in a million glass flowers | M |
| In the darkness already | P |
| the woman picking milk from the step | Q |
| the ashes raked last thing at night | R |
| are postures buried | S |
| slipping into dust rock ooze | T |
| furniture of a planet | U |
| wheeling in silence | J |
| lonely as a train | A |
| waving its little handkerchiefs of steam | V |
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