Analysis of Night Train (Blues Poem #18)
Itching
itching
nowhere
to scratch
Rambling
rambling
balling
the jack
Freight car
open
voices
interred
The brakeman
singing
"Turn
"Turn
"Turn"
(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)
| Scheme | AAxx AAax xbxx baCCC x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 10 1 11 10 10 10 01 11 10 10 1 010 10 1 1 1 110 |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 8 |
| Words per line (avg) | 1 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 2024
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 2024
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