Analysis of Next Station
With no advanced ticket,
I pay as I go
My boarding left open,
still more things to know
The day train a local,
expresses by night
My spirit rolls inward,
—next station in sight
(Highpoint North Carolina: April, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA BC XC B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 11111 110110 11111 011010 01011 110110 11001 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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