Analysis of ROAD TO NOWHERE
On the road to nowhere
Only losers ever travel,
Those whom hope abandoned
Whose lives and loves unravel.
An endless Macadam goes on
Right to the distant horizon,
Welcoming the broken-hearted
Whose reasons to live have gone.
A lovelorn place for losers
Where nothing worthwhile grows,
Where no-one ever tends the soil
And only the Reaper ever sows.
Beside the never-ending road
Are rivers of sand so very red,
And in the distant forestland
Is nothing but those long dead.
Ghost towns dot the deserts
Where human life once thrived,
But aeons on from there
Nothing decent has survived.
On the road to nowhere
Angels surely fear to tread,
And wise men try to escape
Hearts and minds full of dread.
Tarantulas and Spinifex
Move across the burning red sand,
And nothing else can live here
Within this sun-blasted land.
On the road to loneliness
Only the heart-broken walk,
And in the very dead of night
Loathsome faceless beings stalk.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb xxxx xdxd xece fgag Aexe xhxh xixi xfx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
Metre | 10111 10101010 111010 1101010 11001011 11010010 10001010 1101111 011110 110111 11110101 010010101 01010101 110111101 000101 1101111 111010 110111 11111 1010101 10111 1010111 0111101 101111 01000100 10101011 0101111 0111101 1011100 1001101 00010111 1010101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,009 |
Words | 194 |
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) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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On the road to nowhere Only losers ever travel, Those whom hope abandoned Whose lives and loves unravel.
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Written on December 09, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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