Analysis of The Station
Larry Colliflower 1971 (Hagerstown)
As the rain falls softly on the ground,
He sits at the station barely making a sound,
He thinks about his life and about his plans,
Does he treat his family better than his old man?
He stopped the drinkin and the smoke,
But a look in the mirror he loses all hope,
If it’s not one vice it’s surely another,
He thinks he grew up colder than his mother,
Lookin at the mistakes he sure has plenty,
The future is blurry but hindsight’s 20/20,
His cup is empty, he walks towards the door,
He looks at his cup and thinks he’ll have one more,
He’s heard life’s not a journey not a destination,
He feels like he hasn’t done a thing but sit in the station,
Watching the trains go by missing the boarding calls,
He sees them come and go but never gets on any at all,
Get busy living or dying it’s time to make up his mind,
So he packs up and takes the train further down the line.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110101 111010101001 11011100111 1111100101111 1101001 101001011011 11111110010 11111101110 1100111110 01011011 11110110101 11111011111 111101010010 11111101110010 100111100101 111101110111011 110101101111111 1111010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 669 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 174 |
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A man contemplating life
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