Analysis of Railway To Hell
Everyone else has gotten off,
how long am I to stay?
The train unstationed, tender gone,
its engine writhed in pain
Did I miss my stop on the journey down?
“an express” the porter screamed
All light afire, ticket burnt
—satanic nightmare dreamed
(Drexel University: February, 2020)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 111111 011101 110101 1111110101 1010101 1101101 01011 100100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 279 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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