Analysis of TROUBLE TOWN



Trouble Town is for the lonesome
A town where only the troubled go,
No-one in their right mind would go there
It's a place the chosen never know.

If life hasn't ever chosen you
It might just be the place to be,
A land of shallow, broken promises
A place of pain and misery.

Trouble Town is for the faint-hearted
The strong could never find the place,
They say it is the land of heartache
The residents have lost the human race.

If you're lonesome it's for you
But never if you are strong of mind,
It's hidden in a red sandy dell
Which only lovelorn losers can find.

Don't go searching for this wasteland
Please stay far away from Trouble Town,
It's not a place for those with hope left
It's for the broken and trodden down.

It is a town of empty vows
Where every promise is just a lie,
In a desert where nothing good grows
Hopes and dreams will surely die.

You don't move into Trouble Town
It's a place you move down to,
You don't descend there on a whim
But only when all hope is doomed.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme XAXA BCXC XDXD BEXE XFXF XGXG FBXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10111010 011100101 110111111 101010101 111010101 11110111 0111010100 01110100 101110110 01110101 11110111 0100110101 1110111 110111111 110001101 11011011 1110111 111011101 110111111 110100101 11011101 1100101101 001011011 1011101 11101101 1011111 11011101 11011111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,030
Words 202
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

I intended this to be a supernatural horror poem, I've been writing a lot of them lately. But the poem had it's own ideas and moved into a totally different direction. It happens!

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Written on August 01, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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