Analysis of CRUEL WINTER WINDS (2008)
Cruel winter winds
Shriek through old Melbourne Town,
Freezing the very life from
Those whose lives have gone right down.
Street folk starve at Christmas
But freeze to death in June,
They see their sad lives slip away
And falter toward the tomb.
The luckless masses mill about
Huddled against the breeze,
But in the frigid winter night
They're sure to death to freeze.
They stagger through the frozen streets
Just trying to get warm,
But when the cold wind takes a life
Does anyone really mourn?
The cold, cruel wind of winter
Cuts through them like a knife,
And on the streets of Melbourne Town
It steals away a life.
Still in Toorak all the millionaires
Live warmed beside a raging fire,
Indifferent to the fate of those
To whom living is such a trial.
Still in their ivory mansions
The rich folk live in peace,
While outside homeless folk
Die freezing in their sleep.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XXCX DCAC XDXX XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 111101 1001011 1111111 111110 111101 11111101 0100101 01010101 100101 10010101 111111 11010101 110111 11011101 110101 01101110 111101 01011101 110101 1011001 110101010 01010111 111011010 10110010 011101 111101 110011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
A poem about the seemingly endless Melbourne winter of 2008.
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Written on February 09, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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