Analysis of DESTINATION UNKNOWN

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



On an open highway
In the land of the lost,
Lonely travellers speed by
Afraid of stopping at any cost.

A highway that leads nowhere
Surround by red desert sand,
A place where only fools would stop
Within this awful sun-scorched land.

Cactus and spinifex grow they
Beside the edge of the highway,
Where it's freezing cold by night
And it's burning hot by day.

Sensible people all stay away
From the destination unknown,
The endless highway to Hell
That no map has ever shown.

Only loners head this way
When there's nowhere else to go,
Where evil seems to proliferate
And time seems to somehow slow.

An infinite voyage to nowhere
When there's nowhere safe to stay,
Riding upon the road to ruin
Through a scorching sundrenched day

No neon lights to guide the way
No road signs to tell you where,
An unending trip to lonelyville
On a road that's neither here nor there.

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


Scheme AXXX BCXC AAXA ADED AFXF BAXA ABEB XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 001101 1010011 011101101 01111 0111101 01110111 01110111 10010011 0101101 1110111 0110111 100101101 1001001 010111 1111101 1010111 111111 11011010 011111 11001011 111111 100101110 101011 11011101 1111111 1010111 101110111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 907
Words 166
Sentences 7
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) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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On an open highway In the land of the lost, Lonely travellers speed by Afraid of stopping at any cost.

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Written on August 01, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 14, 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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