Analysis of REMINISCENCES OF THE 1990S
I can hear the night around me
Hear the silence of its cry,
I can see the moon above me
Glowing amber in the night;
Yet when the new day dawns
I'll see the sun transcend the sky.
Then I turn the television on
And a commercial haunts within,
For I see a small child begging
Myriad problems worse than mine;
I see a blind man selling pencils
A Labrador sleeping at his feet.
The radio blares the Grand Final
The Weagles take the cup interstate,
And the city is silenced
By yet another Met strike;
It's been raining all summer
Melbourne is back to normal again.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABAXXB XXXXXX XXXXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101011 1010111 11101011 1010001 110111 11010101 11101001 00010101 11101110 10010111 110111010 01010111 01010110 0110101 0010110 1101011 1110110 101111001 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
A strange and largely awful decade, the 1990s.
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Written on 1999
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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