Analysis of The forgotten
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Just off Essex Street
The poor and aging die,
Forgotten by a government
Indifferent to their plight.
Not far from Melbourne’s CBD
Street folk die from frost,
The elderly, the invalids
The unemployed and the lost.
In a frigid Melbourne winter
The unemployed sleep outside,
Waiting for help that never comes
Expecting soon to surely die.
Forgotten folk deemed unimportant
By those who have the power,
The milk of human kindness
Most surely has gone sour.
So the forgotten freeze to death
Just a little off Essex Street,
‘We cannot give them jobs or food
And we WILL NOT give them heat!’
The forgotten have given up
What point is there to even dream,
For governments are surely death
To the forgotten’s mortal screams.
Who has hope in the City's west
Where governments have let them down,
And let them live and die outside
Just outside of Melbourne Town.
Yes, the forgotten have no reason
To continue their awful existence,
And so they hark to death’s loud call
To give up on life’s pretense.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCX ADXD EFXB CEXE GAXA XXGX XHFH XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 010101 01010100 010111 11111 11111 01000100 001001 00101010 001111 10111101 01011101 010110010 1111010 0111010 1101110 10010111 10101101 11011111 0111111 00101101 11111101 11001101 101101 11100101 11001111 01110111 1111101 100101110 1010110010 01111111 1111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,040 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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