Analysis of The Railroad Station
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
JUST a very common thing -
Shouts and whistles, bells that ring,
Just a platform in the rain
And a slowly moving train;
Just a woman dressed in black
Standing by a station-hack,
Gazing with her eyes profound
As the train goes outward bound;
And her bearing does not say
Who it is that goes away,
One who made her pulses stir,
Or a guest who wearied her.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 1010111 101001 0010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011101 0010111 1111101 1110101 1011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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