Morning Express Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFGFGHHIJKK LLMBBM| Along the wind swept platform pinched and white | A |
| The travellers stand in pools of wintry light | A |
| Offering themselves to morn's long slanting arrows | B |
| The train's due porters trundle laden barrows | B |
| The train steams in volleying resplendent clouds | C |
| Of sun blown vapour Hither and about | D |
| Scared people hurry storming the doors in crowds | C |
| The officials seem to waken with a shout | D |
| Resolved to hoist and plunder some to the vans | E |
| Leap others rumble the milk in gleaming cans | E |
| Boys indolent eyed from baskets leaning back | F |
| Question each face a man with a hammer steals | G |
| Stooping from coach to coach with clang and clack | F |
| Touches and tests and listens to the wheels | G |
| Guard sounds a warning whistle points to the clock | H |
| With brandished flag and on his folded flock | H |
| Claps the last door the monster grunts 'Enough ' | I |
| Tightening his load of links with pant and puff | J |
| Under the arch then forth into blue day | K |
| Glide the processional windows on their way | K |
| And glimpse the stately folk who sit at ease | L |
| To view the world like kings taking the seas | L |
| in prosperous weather drifting banners tell | M |
| Their progress to the counties with them goes | B |
| The clamour of their journeying while those | B |
| Who sped them stand to wave a last farewell | M |
Siegfried Sassoon
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Barbara: I remember our class at school reading this poem in assembly. We had to say, "The Monster grunts enough, enough, enough", more times than the once in the above poem.
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