Analysis of Diamante Verses #001
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
AUSTRALIA
Australia
Fascist, worthless
Scheming, cheating, lying
Rich, powerful, money brokers
Robbing, looting, destroying
Rotten, corrupt
New Holland
CBD (II)
CBD
Heartless, soulless
Hurting, ripping, rending
Homeless people slowly dying
Using, abusing, destroying
Unconscionable, unforgivable
Inner Melbourne
THE CITY (I)
Melbourne
Dark, gloomy
Despairing, grieving, crying
A morass of hopelessness
Wishing, hoping, failing
Perverted, ruthless
The City
LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY (II)
Living
Hungry, lonely
Hating, hunting, harvesting
Is there no hope?
Teasing, terrorising, torching
Harried, watchful
Suffering.
EARTH TODAY
Earth
Polluted, dirty
Dying, failing, heating
Global warming killing us
Crying, losing, burning
Drowning, sickly
Terra Firma
GLOBAL WARMING
Warming
Lifeless, hopeless
Burning, melting, killing
Polar caps soon melting
Rising, soaking, sinking
Dying, drowning
Endless summer!
THE GRIM REAPER (II)
Reaper
Lethal, sly
Reaping, chopping, scything
Grimly slaying human beings
Cutting, lopping, killing
Deadly, final
Death!
UNEMPLOYMENT (II)
Unemployed
Degraded, downtrodden
Begging, pleading, failing
No-one gives a damn!
Crying, sighing, dying
Beaten, belittled
The forgotten
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AAbcxcdx edbcccfg eghcbcbh echcxcfc xxhcbcha ccbcccci eixcxcfx exjcxcxj xxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 010 1010 101010 11001010 1010010 1001 110 11 1 1010 101010 10101010 10010010 010000100 1010 0101 10 110 0101010 0011100 101010 01010 010 10011001 10 1010 1010100 1111 10110 1010 100 101 1 01010 101010 1010101 101010 1010 1010 1010 10 1010 101010 101110 101010 1010 1010 01101 10 101 10101 10101010 101010 1010 1 0101 01 01010 101010 11101 101010 10010 0010 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,203 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 67 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 2 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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