AERIAL TIGER
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
An aerial tiger
A paper balloon,
The breeze rises high
To the man in the moon.
Nobody worries
No one dares to move,
For it’s only your life
That you’re liable to lose.
The smog of the city
Is enveloping you,
With the aerial tiger
The low morning’s dew.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
This is one of my earliest surviving poems. It was written during my wannabee psychaedelic stage.
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Written on 1974
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXB XXXX XCAC XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 317 |
Words | 59 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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