Analysis of R.I.P. BRIAN NAYLOR
When the mercury touches forty-seven
And Victoria starts to burn,
With bushfires razing Gippsland
There are harsh lessons to be learnt.
On Ash Wednesday in 1983
Brian Naylor broadcast live,
From where the fires were still burning
In the Victorian countryside.
For twenty years he led the way
As the voice of Victorian TV news,
Professional, polite, and dignified
Giving just the facts, not personal views.
But even the best can’t work forever
And a year after turning sixty-five,
Brian broke the sad news to us all
That at last, he would retire.
For eleven years he lived at home
A much-loved family man,
In a township near the farms
Around Victoria’s East Gippsland.
But as the mercury passes to forty-seven
Gippsland has begun to burn,
And with a hundred deaths already feared
The worst news has just been learnt.
After growing up with Brian
It’s hard to believe he isn’t still on,
And as the worst news is read aloud
We learn Brian and his wife are gone.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCC XDXC XECE XDXX XXXC ABCC AXCX CXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100101010 00100111 11101 11110111 11100 101011 110100110 00010010 11011101 10110100111 010001010 1010111001 1100111010 0011010101 101011111 1111101 101011111 0111001 0010101 01010011 1101001011010 110111 0101010101 0111111 10101110 111011111 010111101 111001111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,007 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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When the mercury touches forty-seven And Victoria starts to burn, With bushfires razing Gippsland There are harsh lessons to be learnt.
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Written on February 11, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 11, 2023
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