Analysis of Diamante Verses #002



CBD (I)
CBD
Heartless, soulless
Ripping, rending, killing
Homeless people slowly dying
Using, abusing, destroying
Unconscionable, unforgivable
Inner Melbourne

THE CITY (II)
Melbourne
Dark, gloomy
Depressing, grieving, crying
A morass of hopelessness
Wishing, hoping, failing
Perverted, ruthless
The City

EARTH TODAY
Earth
Polluted, dirty
Dying, failing, heating
Global warming killing us
Crying, losing, burning
Drowning, sickly
Terra Firma

THE GRIM REAPER (I)
The Grim Reaper
Lethal, sly
Reaping, chopping, scything
Grimly slaying human beings
Cutting, lopping, killing
Deadly, final
Death!

LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY (I)
Now
Hopeless, lost
Hurting, hating, harming
Dour, dire, dirty, depressing
Tearing, tormenting, torturing,
Helpless, wary
Today

MARIBYRNONG
Maribyrnong
Rancid, fetid
Trying, failing, dying
Poverty, misery, homelessness, desperation
Hoping, praying, begging
Evil, worthless
Footscray

MELBOURNE TOWN
Melbourne
Hungry, angry
Struggling, crying, pleading
Helplessness, despair, suffering, loneliness
Wanting, needing, asking
Hardhearted, unyielding
Victoria

UNEMPLOYMENT (I)
Unemployment
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


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Poetic Form
Metre 11 1 1010 101010 10101010 10010010 010000100 1010 0101 10 110 0101010 0011100 101010 01010 010 101 1 01010 101010 1010101 101010 1010 1010 01101 0110 101 10101 10101010 101010 1010 1 10011001 1 101 101010 10110010 1010100 1010 01 1 1 1010 101010 100100100010 101010 1010 1 101 10 1010 1001010 10001100100 101010 1010 0100 0101 010 01010 101010 11101 101010 10010 0010 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,239
Words 166
Sentences 3
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 3
Lines Amount 67
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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