Analysis of Railroad

Marat Omar 1951 (Petropavlovsk)



RAILROAD
Steel rails shining in the sunlight
Lured me when I was a little boy
I thought my path in life would be bright,
Like shining rail tracks, and full of joy.

I could not imagine highs and lows
And thought my road was like rails, straight.
Didn’t know that fate would shower me with blows,
Turns and twists I would not await.

I always struggled not to miss my train
To reach the fairyland I saw in my dream.
Alas! My hopes were all in vain,
They were shattered by life’s wild stream.

I made wrongs that can’t be put right,
I drowned in sins and lost my track.
My dreamland drifted away, got out of sight
The childhood paradise will never come back.

I am doomed to live in eternal quest
Of a tiny nook free of hate and strife,
Where my tormented soul could find a rest
From ugly sinful earthly life.


Scheme XABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HIHI
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1110001 111110101 111101111 110110111 111010101 01111111 1111110111 10111101 111011111 1101011011 01110101 10101111 11111111 11010111 1110011111 011011011 1111100101 1010111101 111011101 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 792
Words 155
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

This poem was not published anywhere before. It reflects author's view of the delusions of life and his longhing for his serene childhood days.

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Written on October 20, 2021

Submitted by mermukanov on October 19, 2021

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Marat Omar

Marat Omar is a translator, a poet and a frrelance journalist from Kazakhstan. He writes in Kazakh, Russian and English more…

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