Analysis of ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE



The lonely people starve
They're living without hope,
They're struggling to survive
And most just barely cope.

According to the Lib-Nats
"They're bludgers anyway,
So who cares if they suffer
If they fail to live another day?"

The lonely people struggle
Not helped by Dagwood Hunch,
Who only ever slanders them
And is no use at the final crunch.

The unemployed are miserable
Some freezing living homeless,
Unable to find any succor
Until they find their final rest.

Heartless bureaucrats laugh
If they ask for a helping hand,
They live and die suffering
Within this "lucky" land.

Slandered across the country
In a media-led hate wave,
Forced to sleep out of doors
Till they reach an early grave.

All the lonely people
Left suffering living outside,
Starving, roasting, or freezing
Until unnoticed, they all die.

THE END
© Copyright 2022, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme XAXA XBCB DEXE DXCX XFGF XHXH DXGX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 110011 1100101 011101 0101011 1110 1111110 111110101 0101010 11111 11010101 011110101 00111000 1101010 010111010 01111101 10101 11110101 1101100 011101 1001010 00100111 111111 1111101 101010 11001011 1010110 01010111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 891
Words 166
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

About the plight of the homeless and unemployed.

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Written on November 13, 2022

Submitted by philip0157 on November 12, 2022

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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