Analysis of Dark clouds
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Dark clouds, dark thoughts gathering
In your mind, in the air, in the sky,
Dark clouds, dark thoughts wandering
On a night when you fear you may die.
Dark clouds gathering overhead
In the day, when the sun’s shining bright,
Dark clouds hover all around your bed
Like a shroud hanging over the night.
Dark clouds make your life seem grey
As the Devil seems to be on your back,
Dark clouds haunt you night and day
Until it seems you're under attack.
Dark clouds torment you, steal your breath
As your life has been turned upside down,
Dark clouds make you yearn for death
As it seems your life has run aground.
Dark clouds undermining your life
As it seems you have no purpose left,
Dark clouds overhead are rife
As it seems that your life is bereft.
Dark clouds devastating you
As it seems you are losing control,
Dark clouds haunting through and through
As you're fighting a battle for your soul.
Dark clouds haunting you, it seems
As your life is reduced to despair,
Dark clouds fill your thoughts and dreams
It seems there is no-one left who cares.
Dark clouds keep you locked within
As your life seems to be on the slide,
Dark clouds keep on gathering
On a night when you know you will die.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX HIHI JKJK LXLX XXAB XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 011001001 1111100 101111111 11100101 001101101 111010111 101101001 1111111 1010111111 1111101 011111001 1111111 111111111 1111111 111111101 1110011 111111101 1110111 111111101 111001 111111001 1110101 1110010111 1110111 111101101 1111101 111111111 1111101 111111101 1111100 101111111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,233 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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