Analysis of The Railroad
Elizabeth Daryush 1887 – 1977
Along the iron rails
Plod still with panting power,
Range still the empty trails
Hour after hour;
Stare still where looms ahead
Each signal-skeleton,
Whose jerking arms forbid
Or bid you on,
Whose grim lamps rule the glooms
With stringent red or green—
Forget your sunny home's
Wild-paths between
Primrose and violet,
Your breeze-lit fields of rye...
Your golden sheaves forget—
Forget, or die.
Scheme | ABAB XXXX ACXC XDXD |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 010101 1111010 110101 101010 111101 110100 110101 1111 111101 110111 011101 1101 10100 111111 110101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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