Analysis of THE LAND OF THE DOOMED
In the land of the doomed
Where only sorrow grows,
The broken-hearted abound
All pleasure is now unknown.
All the lonely people
Subsisting in despair,
The hopeless are marooned here
Abandoned without care.
Lost and homeless descend
To live in this region,
A zone of empty promises
All quality of life is gone.
The helpless and morose
Cursed to walk this land,
Living off mouldy scraps
Whatever comes to hand.
Frightened, empty folk
Shuffle along the streets,
Wary of all movement
Afraid of all they meet.
Mired in broken dreams
Of when their life went well
Barely living, barren creatures
Trapped in this living Hell.
Caught in a land so awful
They can barely contemplate,
All their luck turned bad
Surrendering to their fate.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XXXX ABXB CXXX XDXD XXXX XEXE AFXF CXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001101 110101 0101001 1101101 101010 1001 0101011 010011 101001 110110 01110100 11001111 010001 11111 101101 10111 10101 100101 101110 011111 10101 111111 10101010 101101 1001110 111010 11111 0100111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 768 |
| Words | 134 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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In the land of the doomed Where only sorrow grows, The broken-hearted abound All pleasure is now unknown.
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Written on January 12, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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