Analysis of Trains Fury



On a bridge across the river
I knelt down to see
the water and gulls passing below.
Birds in the trees above,
whistled a warning
but I failed to understand,
I wasn’t aware of my surroundings.
At that moment a train
came crashing onto the bridge,
its smoke tail flailing back over
the shiny black engine
slashing the steel girders above.
I leaped quickly to the side
and fell as it streaked past me
blasting everything from its path,
sweeping quickly across the bridge
throwing itself out the other end
in a careless fury.
I saw the river for the way
it really is as I broke
the smooth surface of the water
like shattering a pane of glass.
The water wallowed, and lay back,
then closed in, healing itself
with only a quiet whisper,
then continued on its journey
carrying me with it just below
the surface like so much waste material
to be deposited somewhere downstream.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIAJDKBLIMBNOAPQRABCST
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 11111 010011001 100101 10010 111101 110111010 111001 1101001 11110110 010110 10011001 1110101 0111111 1010111 10100101 100110101 001010 11010101 1101111 01101010 11000111 01010011 1101001 11001010 10101110 100111101 01011110100 110100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 857
Words 160
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 697
Words per stanza (avg) 158
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Submitted on April 11, 2018

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Richard Smith

Been writing poetry and doing open mic readings since 1985, 12 years on TV, 21 years with local college more…

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