Analysis of 2020 - The Year of the Virulent Crown
Christopher Hobson 1966 (London)
Happy new year!
Auld Lang Syne sung full of cheer.
Soft kisses and warm hugs at heaving celebrations,
Crowded travel home through busy airports and stations,
Few people note what has began,
Some poor souls coughing in Wuhan.
First wave commences.
Covid attacking all the body’s defenses.
Crossing borders as serenely as clouds,
Driving high demand for masks and for shrouds,
Apocalypse warnings softly spoken,
Mortality records daily broken.
Now lockdowns appear.
Tourists still port the deadly souvenir.
Nightingale hospitals built in days,
But care homes hit hardest in this phase,
Brave doctors and nurses fight on,
No capes; Scrubs, masks and gloves they don.
Vaccines herald hope.
But people, weary, struggle to cope.
Winter and the new variants drive up the strain,
Isolation for many means more mental pain,
Christmas this year done only via zoom,
Does little to lift the increasing gloom.
Another new year.
Muted celebrations with hope and with fear.
New resolutions to end this crushing pandemic,
And relieve us all of our routines, so systemic,
Much endured throughout this long fight,
Surely now, the end is in sight?
Scheme | AABBXC DDEECC AAFFGG HHIIJJ AAKKLL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 1011 1111111 110011110010 101011101010 11011101 11110010 11010 1010101010 10101010011 1010111011 010101010 0100011010 1101 101101001 10010101 111110011 11001011 11110111 1101 110101011 100011001101 01011011101 1011110101 1101100101 01011 1001011011 101011110010 00111110011010 10101111 10101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,102 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on January 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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