Analysis of 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
| Scheme | ABXB XXXX XCAC XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
| Metre | 110010 01001 01101 101001 110 11111 111011 1110011 011010 101001 1010010 01101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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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