The Egg And The Machine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKL MMNNOOPQRP| He gave the solid rail a hateful kick | A |
| From far away there came an answering tick | A |
| And then another tick He knew the code | B |
| His hate had roused an engine up the road | B |
| He wished when he had had the track alone | C |
| He had attacked it with a club or stone | C |
| And bent some rail wide open like switch | D |
| So as to wreck the engine in the ditch | D |
| Too late though now he had himself to thank | E |
| Its click was rising to a nearer clank | E |
| Here it came breasting like a horse in skirts | F |
| He stood well back for fear of scalding squirts | F |
| Then for a moment all there was was size | G |
| Confusion and a roar that drowned the cries | G |
| He raised against the gods in the machine | H |
| Then once again the sandbank lay serene | H |
| The traveler's eye picked up a turtle train | I |
| between the dotted feet a streak of tail | J |
| And followed it to where he made out vague | K |
| But certain signs of buried turtle's egg | L |
| And probing with one finger not too rough | M |
| He found suspicious sand and sure enough | M |
| The pocket of a little turtle mine | N |
| If there was one egg in it there were nine | N |
| Torpedo like with shell of gritty leather | O |
| All packed in sand to wait the trump together | O |
| 'You'd better not disturb any more ' | P |
| He told the distance 'I am armed for war | Q |
| The next machine that has the power to pass | R |
| Will get this plasm in it goggle glass ' | P |
Robert Lee Frost
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