Analysis of ONE HOUR
One hour feels like a lifetime
When you sleep out in the street,
No shelter ‘gainst the rain or hail
No blankets to give heat.
One hour seems like a lifetime
When there’s nowhere warm to hide,
No shelter from the storms of life
And no way to live inside.
One hour can mean the end of life
For street folk in Melbourne’s winter,
The speed of life accelerates
As winter winds grow bitter.
One hour can cause the loss of hope
For those whose lives are like an empty well,
While we may call it wintertime
The street folk call it, “Hell!”
One hour can mean no future
For those who have no chance,
Who wander lifeless through the years
Like sleepers in a trance.
One hour can mean the end of all
For those who won’t go on,
They find their awful life moves slow
Each second seems an aeon.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB ACDC DEXE XFAF EGXG XHXH XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 1111001 11010111 110111 1101101 111111 11010111 0111101 110110111 1110110 0111010 1101110 110110111 1111111101 1111110 011111 11011110 111111 11010101 110001 110110111 111111 11110111 110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 840 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
One hour feels like a lifetime When you sleep out in the street, No shelter ‘gainst the rain or hail No blankets to give heat.
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Written on July 23, 2008
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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