Analysis of train



Winter landscape
   Escape
The fields painted
Purple and gold
As I hold
Your hand
The train echoes
— a ghost —
Not here,
Yet here
Past and present
Joined
I am the ghost
Of you
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Scheme AABCCDEFGGHIFJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (67%)
Metre 101 01 0110 1001 111 11 0110 01 11 11 1010 1 1101 11 1
Characters 182
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 9
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 36

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Night train

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Written on October 27, 2023

Submitted by J.mayer on October 27, 2023

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