One Train May Hide Another Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGHGIJGKLGMNOG PGQQBRASPTFUVPWXYVZA 2B2C2GSJJC2D2DNPE2F2 UG2SH2FI2SGGJ2K2L2NG GGIUA2M2G| In a poem one line may hide another line | A |
| As at a crossing one train may hide another train | B |
| That is if you are waiting to cross | C |
| The tracks wait to do it for one moment at | D |
| Least after the first train is gone And so when you read | E |
| Wait until you have read the next line | A |
| Then it is safe to go on reading | F |
| In a family one sister may conceal another | G |
| So when you are courting it's best to have them all in view | H |
| Otherwise in coming to find one you may love another | G |
| One father or one brother may hide the man | I |
| If you are a woman whom you have been waiting to love | J |
| So always standing in front of something the other | G |
| As words stand in front of objects feelings and ideas | K |
| One wish may hide another And one person's reputation may hide | L |
| The reputation of another One dog may conceal another | G |
| On a lawn so if you escape the first one you're not necessarily safe | M |
| One lilac may hide another and then a lot of lilacs and on the Appia | N |
| Antica one tomb | O |
| May hide a number of other tombs In love one reproach may hide another | G |
| One small complaint may hide a great one | P |
| One injustice may hide another one colonial may hide another | G |
| One blaring red uniform another and another a whole column One bath | Q |
| may hide another bath | Q |
| As when after bathing one walks out into the rain | B |
| One idea may hide another Life is simple | R |
| Hide Life is incredibly complex as in the prose of Gertrude Stein | A |
| One sentence hides another and is another as well And in the laboratory | S |
| One invention may hide another invention | P |
| One evening may hide another one shadow a nest of shadows | T |
| One dark red or one blue or one purple this is a painting | F |
| By someone after Matisse One waits at the tracks until they pass | U |
| These hidden doubles or sometimes likenesses One identical twin | V |
| May hide the other And there may be even more in there The obstetrician | P |
| Gazes at the Valley of the Var We used to live there my wife and I but | W |
| One life hid another life And now she is gone and I am here | X |
| A vivacious mother hides a gawky daughter The daughter hides | Y |
| Her own vivacious daughter in turn They are in | V |
| A railway station and the daughter is holding a bag | Z |
| Bigger than her mother's bag and successfully hides it | A2 |
| In offering to pick up the daughter's bag one finds oneself confronted by | B2 |
| the mother's | C2 |
| And has to carry that one too So one hitchhiker | G |
| May deliberately hide another and one cup of coffee | S |
| Another too until one is over excited One love may hide another love | J |
| or the same love | J |
| As when I love you suddenly rings false and one discovers | C2 |
| The better love lingering behind as when I'm full of doubts | D2 |
| Hides I'm certain about something and it is that | D |
| And one dream may hide another as is well known always too In the | N |
| Garden of Eden | P |
| Adam and Eve may hide the real Adam and Eve | E2 |
| Jerusalem may hide another Jerusalem | F2 |
| When you come to something stop to let it pass | U |
| So you can see what else is there At home no matter where | G2 |
| Internal tracks pose dangers too one memory | S |
| Certainly hides another that being what memory is all about | H2 |
| The eternal reverse succession of contemplated entities Reading | F |
| A Sentimental Journey look around | I2 |
| When you have finished for Tristram Shandy to see | S |
| If it is standing there it should be stronger | G |
| And more profound and theretofore hidden as Santa Maria Maggiore | G |
| May be hidden by similar churches inside Rome One sidewalk | J2 |
| May hide another as when you're asleep there and | K2 |
| One song hide another song a pounding upstairs | L2 |
| Hide the beating of drums One friend may hide another you sit at the | N |
| foot of a tree | G |
| With one and when you get up to leave there is another | G |
| Whom you'd have preferred to talk to all along One teacher | G |
| One doctor one ecstasy one illness one woman one man | I |
| May hide another Pause to let the first one pass | U |
| You think Now it is safe to cross and you are hit by the next one It | A2 |
| can be important | M2 |
| To have waited at least a moment to see what was already there | G |
Kenneth Koch
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