The Orient Express Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCADCEEFGHIIAJKL CCMACNAOAKPPQRO| One looks from the train | A |
| Almost as one looked as a child In the sunlight | B |
| What I see still seems to me plain | A |
| I am safe but at evening | C |
| As the lands darken a questioning | C |
| Precariousness comes over everything | C |
| Once after a day of rain | A |
| I lay longing to be cold after a while | D |
| I was cold again and hunched shivering | C |
| Under the quilt's many colors gray | E |
| With the dull ending of the winter day | E |
| Outside me there were a few shapes | F |
| Of chairs and tables things from a primer | G |
| Outside the window | H |
| There were the chairs and tables of the world | I |
| I saw that the world | I |
| That had seemed to me the plain | A |
| Gray mask of all that was strange | J |
| Behind it of all that was was all | K |
| But it is beyond belief | L |
| One thinks Behind everything | C |
| An unforced joy an unwilling | C |
| Sadness a willing sadness a forced joy | M |
| Moves changelessly one looks from the train | A |
| And there is something the same thing | C |
| Behind everything all these little villages | N |
| A passing woman a field of grain | A |
| The man who says good bye to his wife | O |
| A path through a wood all full of lives and the train | A |
| Passing after all unchangeable | K |
| And not now ever to stop like a heart | P |
| It is like any other work of art | P |
| It is and never can be changed | Q |
| Behind everything there is always | R |
| The unknown unwanted life | O |
Randall Jarrell
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