Night Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEFCDEGHGHICJCK LLKMNCN| Now as the train bears west | A |
| Its rhythm rocks the earth | B |
| And from my Pullman berth | B |
| I stare into the night | C |
| While others take their rest | A |
| Bridges of iron lace | D |
| A suddenness of trees | E |
| A lap of mountain mist | F |
| All cross my line of sight | C |
| Then a bleak wasted place | D |
| And a lake below my knees | E |
| Full on my neck I feel | G |
| The straining at a curve | H |
| My muscles move with steel | G |
| I wake in every nerve | H |
| I watch a beacon swing | I |
| From dark to blazing bright | C |
| We thunder through ravines | J |
| And gullies washed with light | C |
| Beyond the mountain pass | K |
| Mist deepens on the pane | L |
| We rush into a rain | L |
| That rattles double glass | K |
| Wheels shake the roadbed stone | M |
| The pistons jerk and shove | N |
| I stay up half the night | C |
| To see the land I love | N |
Theodore Roethke
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