Analysis of Anesthesia
The train makes its morning debut to the city.
New passengers move up the stairs, sleepy-eyed and numb.
The train to Chicago gathers its strength, produces speed,
and I hear that familiar anesthetic sound.
It is that friendly mechanical chirp that lulls me into another
milkshake-thick memory.
| Scheme | ABCDEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110011010 1100110110101 0110110110101 01110100101 111100100111101010 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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