The Refugees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEBDECAADAAEBCAB CADE| In the shabby train no seat is vacant | A |
| The child in the ripped mask | B |
| Sprawls undisturbed in the waste | C |
| Of the smashed compartment Is their calm extravagant | A |
| They had faces and lives like you What was it they possessed | D |
| That they were willing to trade for this | E |
| The dried blood sparkles along the mask | B |
| Of the child who yesterday possessed | D |
| A country welcomer than this | E |
| Did he All night into the waste | C |
| The train moves silently The faces are vacant | A |
| Have none of them found the cost extravagant | A |
| How could they They gave what they possessed | D |
| Here all the purses are vacant | A |
| And what else could satisfy the extravagant | A |
| Tears and wish of the child but this | E |
| Impose its canceling terrible mask | B |
| On the days and faces and lives they waste | C |
| What else are their lives but a journey to the vacant | A |
| Satisfaction of death And the mask | B |
| They wear tonight through their waste | C |
| Is death's rehearsal Is it really extravagant | A |
| To read in their faces What is there we possessed | D |
| That we were unwilling to trade for this | E |
Randall Jarrell
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