Analysis of WWW.tf
Christopher J. Alexander 1987 (MilkyWay)
Life in the Wild Wild West.
Toiling away on the hamster wheel by day,
Navigating the traps of ViceCity by night,
Turn left there is a badman,
Turn right there is Babylon,
Don’t look back or you’ll turn to salt,
Stopping is the same as flatlining,
Onward and upward we must press on forward.
Sun-up some get up,
Sun-down some get down,
Naturally we animals find a way to socialise,
Whether we rise to the occasion,
Or fall to the deception,
Is all really well in anything goes land?
Unheard opinions,
Ignored cries,
Unanswered questions,
A forgotten people,
Ignorant to the truth,
Quick to swallow well-packaged “alternative facts”.
Hear our cry of help,
NO…
Listen to our symphony of freedom!
~
ChrisT4
| Scheme | X XX AXXXX XXBAAX BBBXXB XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100111 10011010111 100011111 1111010 111110 11111111 1010111 10010111110 11111 11111 1000110010111 101110010 1110010 1110101011 01010 011 1010 001010 100101 111011001001 110111 1 10110100110 1 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 719 |
| Words | 151 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 5, 6, 6, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem the year before "lockdown" observing humans losing their marbles and seeing the political hyenas preying on the herd of unsuspecting sheeple. When the gates were opened, something was wrong with the "new normal", and the words of this poem seem more fitting now for the times in which we live. Can you relate; what is life like in your part of the world?
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Written on May 05, 2019
Submitted by ChrisT4 on February 04, 2023
Modified on March 29, 2023
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