Analysis of Ore Run
Ore Run
Orecars stretched to the Horizon
Two ores coloured red and grey
Soh in the Forward Engine spotting
Must keep awake Stay alive
The haze the heat thousands of flies
Tom Price to Dampier Port
Return journey could be Para
Just want to dive into Millstream River
or Crystal Pool Cool water
clear you could reach to touch the bottom
keep Alive stay Awake
This train and Soh must rail another day
| Scheme | AABXXX XXCCXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1110010 1110101 100101010 1101101 01011011 1111001 01101110 111101110 1101110 111111010 101101 1101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 404 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
Soh was a spotter at the head of long iron ore trains between the mining towns of Tom Price and Paraburdoo, and port town Dampier in the seventhies. He is now a senior Train Driver.
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