Analysis of The awful place
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
None may leave the awful place
A place where none know hope,
Where no-one dares to dream or strive
And most just barely cope.
For terror rules this dreary land
A land of shattered dreams,
Where belief has turned to sad dismay
A land of sobbing screams.
None may leave the awful place
Well ... none may leave alive,
No-one dares to dream or wish
It’s a trial just to survive.
We learn to live here without faith
And never to aim up high,
We’re seeing out the awful days
And longing soon to die.
None may leave the awful place
Well ... not until the grave,
It takes us all we have to live
There’s nothing left to save.
A place where only losers go
And the winners stay well clear,
A place where apathy takes charge
And life is forever drear.
None may leave the awful place
Or flee their awful cell,
Some may call it West Footscray
But most just call it Hell.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb xdxd Acxc xexe Afcf xgxg Ahgh xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 011111 11111111 011101 11011101 011101 101111101 011101 1110101 111101 1111111 10101101 11111011 0101111 01010101 010111 1110101 110101 11111111 110111 01110101 0010111 01110011 0110101 1110101 111101 111111 111111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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