To A Locomotive In Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAECFGHIJKALCCGIM MNOC MPQRSCTUVW| THEE for my recitative | A |
| Thee in the driving storm even as now the snow the winter day | B |
| declining | C |
| Thee in thy panoply thy measured dual throbbing and thy beat | D |
| convulsive | A |
| Thy black cylindric body golden brass and silvery steel | E |
| Thy ponderous side bars parallel and connecting rods gyrating | C |
| shuttling at thy sides | F |
| Thy metrical now swelling pant and roar now tapering in the | G |
| distance | H |
| Thy great protruding head light fix'd in front | I |
| Thy long pale floating vapor pennants tinged with delicate purple | J |
| The dense and murky clouds out belching from thy smoke stack | K |
| Thy knitted frame thy springs and valves the tremulous twinkle of | A |
| thy wheels | L |
| Thy train of cars behind obedient merrily following | C |
| Through gale or calm now swift now slack yet steadily careering | C |
| Type of the modern emblem of motion and power pulse of the | G |
| continent | I |
| For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse even as here I see | M |
| thee | M |
| With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow | N |
| By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes | O |
| By night thy silent signal lamps to swing | C |
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| Fierce throated beauty | M |
| Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music thy swinging lamps | P |
| at night | Q |
| Thy piercing madly whistled laughter thy echoes rumbling like an | R |
| earthquake rousing all | S |
| Law of thyself complete thine own track firmly holding | C |
| No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine | T |
| Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd | U |
| Launch'd o'er the prairies wide across the lakes | V |
| To the free skies unpent and glad and strong | W |
Walt Whitman
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