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 |
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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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