Sunrise Train
It sprang from earth near dawn and swung bright rays
through far-flung arcs, then, tiny sun ablaze,
swept straight across those slowly flowing mountains
dark as dreams, its white
eye beaming into waning night, its track
a glowing stripe, its silver slicing black
as gaily as a checkered flag flung skyward,
looming greater till it triumphed by,
a rapid patter of staccato clickclacks
underneath a trumpet’s brazen blast,
and streaked out into light,
one long straight silent line horizon bound,
before it blended into morning haze
and journeyed on beyond by sunlit ways.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABCDDEFAGCHAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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