Analysis of HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE
On the highway to nowhere
Only loneliness can prevail,
Nothing beautiful can be seen
Upon your endless travail.
Icy waste turns to red desert
In the twinkling of an eye,
Anorexic beasts crawl along
Awaiting their time to die.
Devil winds turn over trucks
And blind you with red sand,
18-wheelers lie by the kerbs
As you cross an awful dead land.
Mutant cacti fill the plains
For as far as the eye can see,
Evil, sickly, withered things
Which were never meant to be.
Grotesquely formed creatures
Slink near the distant horizon,
Malignant malformed beings
Too foul to gaze on long.
Acid-rain falls all around
As desert gives way to frost,
Nothing worthwhile exists
Soon your will to live is lost.
On the highway to nowhere
You drive on blue-white ice,
Wheels spin, not taking hold
Perhaps you'll die in a thrice.
On this highway to Hell
Only fools would ever drive,
Knowing death is lurking near
And very few ever get out alive.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxb xcdc xexe xfgf xxgd xhxh Aixi xjxj xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 10100101 10100111 0111001 10111110 00100111 0101101 0101111 1011101 011111 101101 11111011 1010101 11110111 1010101 1010111 010110 11010010 010110 111111 1011101 1101111 101101 1111111 10111 111111 111101 0111001 11111 1011101 1011101 0101101101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,009 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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On the highway to nowhere Only loneliness can prevail, Nothing beautiful can be seen Upon your endless travail.
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Written on November 21, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on January 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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