Analysis of That Day
His suicide was
decapitation by train
on the railroad tracks
on which he walked
every day
A few of the thoughts
he likely thought
when walking those tracks
every day
were, “...someday…
someday…
someday…”
He thought,
on that day,
| Scheme | xxaxB xcaB bBB cb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 001011 1011 1111 1001 01101 1101 11011 1001 01 1 1 11 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
This was about a suicide that I covered as a newspaper reporter years ago and my friend's reaction to it
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