Analysis of Ashtabula Disaster
Air -- "Gently Down the Stream of Time"
Have you heard of the dreadful fate
Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
Of their death I will relate,
And also others lost their life;
Ashtabula Bridge disaster,
Where so many people died
Without a thought that destruction
Would plunge them 'neath the wheel of tide.
Swiftly passed the engine's call,
Hastening souls on to death,
Warning not one of them all;
It brought despair right and left.
Among the ruins are many friends,
Crushed to death amidst the roar;
On one thread all may depend,
And hope they've reached the other shore.
P. P. Bliss showed great devotion
To his faithful wife, his pride,
When he saw that she must perish,
He died a martyr by her side.
P. P. Bliss went home above --
Left all friends, earth and fame,
To rest in God's holy love;
Left on earth his work and name.
The people love his work by numbers,
It is read by great and small,
He by it will be remembered,
He has left it for us all.
His good name from time to time
Will rise on land and sea;
It is known in distant climes,
Let it echo wide and free.
One good man among the number,
Found sweet rest in a short time,
His weary soul may sweetly slumber
Within the vale, heaven sublime.
Destruction lay on every side,
Confusion, fire and despair;
No help, no hope, so they died,
Two hundred people over there.
Many ties was there broken,
Many a heart was filled with pain,
Each one left a little token,
For above they live again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11110101 11011101 1111101 01010111 11010 1110101 01011010 11110111 1010101 1001111 1011111 1101101 010101101 1110101 1111101 01110101 11111010 1110111 11111110 11010101 1111101 111101 1101101 1111101 010111110 1111101 11111010 1111111 1111111 111101 1110101 1110101 11101010 1110011 110111010 01011001 010111001 01010001 1111111 11010101 1011110 10011111 11101010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,412 |
Words | 277 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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