Analysis of Delhi to NY~Next Stop



Those were the days
when we travelled without a plan,
A girl, sitting near the train window
rhyming in the whistle of time.

Mom smiled asking what I was humming.
I was lost in watching the sights,
waving with the trees in drizzly rain
sketching a rainbow in the sky.

Beautiful meadows, big rivers
watching nature's beauty,
splendidly created by, none other than
God, The Almighty.

Rattling through tunnels
travelling from station to station
looking for the right destination,
It moved silently along the fields
where many farmers grew their yields.

The mystery, the roar of wheels
the eddying dust
serpentine strings of cars
loaded with boys and girls,

swaying through the North and South,
and East and West.

I wondered, life is as long
as the railroad tracks,
Soon, I boarded
in my own choo- choo dream train
waiting for the 'Next Stop'

When I woke up
I found myself in a beautiful land,
now my dream train
was faster than fairies
stronger than monsters.

I heard a kid singing the same song
I sang in my childhood
Chuga- chuga- chuga -chuga
mimicking, playing with Thomas.

Arrived successfully,
I peeped outside and saw
It was the famous Penn Station
my 'Next Stop'


Scheme XAXX BXCX DEAE XFFGG XXXX XX HXXCI XXCXD HXBX EXFI
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 11100101 011010110 10001011 111011110 11101001 101010101 1001001 1001110 101010 10001011101 10010 10110 100110110 10101010 111000101 11010111 01000111 011 10111 101101 1010101 0101 1101111 1011 1110 0111111 101011 1111 111001001 1111 110110 10110 110110011 11011 1111 10010110 010100 111101 11010110 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,126
Words 203
Sentences 9
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 2, 5, 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on December 04, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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