Analysis of The Tracks Will Switch
This last ride almost over,
the train coming to a stop
The mighty engine slowing down,
my ticket punched and clocked
With words I left untendered,
in towns along the tracks
My thoughts there drift upon the wind,
my legacy attached
This journey seemed redundant,
the scenery looked the same
But voices never heard before,
cry out and call my name
The conductor gives fair warning,
his face I know so well
“A turnout waits, the tracks will switch,
to heaven—or to hell”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 0110101 01010101 110101 1111010 010101 11110101 110001 1101010 0100101 11010101 110111 00101110 111111 0110111 110111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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