Old Engine Driver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJLMBMN| For five and twenty years I've run | A |
| A famous train | B |
| But now my spell of speed is done | A |
| No more I'll strain | B |
| My sight along the treadless tracks | C |
| The gleamy rails | D |
| My hand upon the throttle slacks | C |
| My vision fails | D |
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| No more I'll urge my steed of steel | E |
| Through hostile nights | F |
| No more the mastery I'll feel | E |
| Of monster might | G |
| I'll miss the hiss of giant steam | H |
| The clank the roar | I |
| The agony of brakes that scream | H |
| I'll hear no more | I |
| - | |
| Oh I have held within my hand | J |
| A million lives | K |
| And now my son takes command | J |
| And proudly drives | L |
| While from my cottage wistfully | M |
| I watch his train | B |
| And wave and wave and seem to see | M |
| Myself again | N |
Robert Service
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