Analysis of Steam Train



Should you decide to stay in a hotel that is somewhat off the shelf,
Is quaint, a hundred years old but costs a reasonable amount of pelf,
The Steam Train Hotel is yer place in the town of Antonito, Colorado!
Guests have included my spouse and me and the occasional desperado!

There are few amenities and only eight rooms, all on the second floor.
'Tis a family operation and you are given a key to the hotel's entry door!
After they check you in, they head for home, available only by phone!
Baffled guests from thence are pretty much left to paddle on their own!

You enter a long, creepy hall and the floor creaks with each step taken!
(This was gonna be a thrillin' venture, of that there was no mistakin'!)
Antiques adorn each room and various geegaws are hangin' on the wall.
(I keep an eye peeled for fearsome ghosts and this casts a murky pall!)

U.S. Highway 265 passes right in front of the hotel addin' to my plight!
Convoys of infernal eighteen-wheelers keep me awake throughout the night!
There ain't no air conditionin' and it is hotter than you know where!
How I yearned for mornin' and salvation from my miserable despair!

The sun shone through the window revealin' a beautiful October morn!
We later boarded the Rio Grande steamer to begin our railway bourne!
Peerin' back at the hotel I thought it might've been haunted by spooky hosts,
But I reckon that it is probably too hot and noisy for even finicky ghosts!


Scheme AABB CCDD XDXX EEFF GGHH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Metre 1111100011111101 110101111010000111 0110111100111010 110101101000100010 111010001011110101 1010001001110011001101 101110111101001011 1011111011110111 11001101001111110 111010110111111 0101110100111101 1111111010110101 111010110011111 11010011011010101 11111011101111 11111001011100001 0111010101000101 110100101101011011 111001111101101101 1110111100110101101001
Characters 1,469
Words 265
Sentences 19
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 58
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 232
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted by hitalot on October 12, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:19 min read
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Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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