Analysis of The ghost train.
THE GHOST TRAIN
On the train that rides alone
along this track of skin and bone,
find locations to us unknown -
the Ghost Train comes.
Sitting, staring, watching paths
of lives unfolding,
to me just laughs -
the Ghost Train comes.
Darker now the tunnels come,
feelings gone and nothing done.
I look for signs of where I've been;
but cannot see cause eyes are dim -
the Ghost Train comes.
I'm on this train for life I think
but Ghost Trains aren't real just minds out of sync.
I look outside, the door is open,
my brain all rattled, slow and broken.
I step off now the train has gone.
I reflect inside of what I've done.
For nine years I rode that train,
I lost true love and half my brain.
And what I've learned is one d*mn thing -
don't live your life to love one thing.
For me, a little lives inside.
Still taking people for a ride
So when you decide to take a train,
take the track that is true and sane.
Please don't live a life in vein -
The Ghost Train.
This is the age of the train.
Scheme | A bbbC xdxC xeexC ffee xeaa ddgg aaaA a |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 1011101 01111101 10101101 0111 1010101 11010 1111 0111 1010101 1010101 11111111 11011111 0111 11111111 11110111111 111101110 111101010 11110111 101011111 1111111 11110111 011111111 11111111 11010101 11010101 11111101 10111101 1110101 011 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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