Analysis of Amtrak 3



Strange how the color drains nearly empty from the morning sky before the tangerine sun even peeks above the lavender-purplish horizon….

Akin to how the color also drains as the sun sets on a much darker violet-purplish horizon after the brilliance, the dazzling fruit punch display, before the blood red star bows goodbye.

Throughout the dewy dawn colors slowly feeling their nimble way across the thinly lined clouds stretched overhead, blues burst.

Classic sky blues contrast vividly with the crimson, turquoise stratospheric blues markedly scar the vermillion, the ruby over the last ridge pecks at the snow glaciers on a deep chocolate peak whose tips puncture half the vista in the viewing car windows.

Now a peach sun paints the red earth and tan scrub in a warmth that heats up lovers’ pleas for one another to please come closer, yet that tangerine sun could not quite catch the sliver of a moon and so a celestial love affair thwarts future attempts evermore.

Some sympathize little with the ill-fated chasing of sun and moon and instead wrap themselves in cloaks of disregard, irreverently dotted with stars.


Scheme X X X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010110101010101001110101010010010 011101010110111011010010010100100100110101011111 01010110101011010101011110111 10111010010101001011001001001010011110110101101111010100010110 1011101101100111110111010111101101111110101010100101011100110 11010101101011010011010110111011
Characters 1,128
Words 196
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 153
Words per line (avg) 31
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

Three of Three in performance series revolving around train rides without sleeper cabins for tall people is akin to something you won't do again.

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by ScottMPotter on May 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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