Analysis of CHRISTMAS CAROL BLUES
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
It's the saddest time of year for me
It's Christmas and I'm on my own,
Now Carol's gone and I'm so blue
It's Christmas and I'm all alone....
All the presents cannot bring me cheer
Without Carol standing by my side,
With her presence nowhere near
I'm dying slowly deep inside.
While Carol parties on turkey and ham
I dine on beer and a cold meat pie,
And Christmas cheer is all a sham
'Cause crying time for me is nigh....
When Christmas time has come and gone
It's time for New Year resolutions,
But the heartaches linger ever on
It seems, for me, there's no solution.
Now Carol is living with somebody else
And everyone parties except me it seems,
For my broken heart can know no help
And celebrations are beyond my means.
I'm sitting here feeling so forlorn
And all my hopes are dead and gone,
Santa tells me nothing
In the world ever turns out right,
Now Carol's gone and I'm all alone
On this awful Christmas night.
Now Carol's gone I'm on my own
On this wretched Christmas night.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA BCBCDEDE FXXXXXXX XFXGAGAG XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011111 11001111 11010111 11001101 101010111 011010111 101011 11010101 1101011001 111100111 01011101 11011111 11011101 11111010 10110101 111111010 1101101101 0101001111 111011111 001010111 110110101 01111101 101110 00110111 110101101 1110101 11011111 1110101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,027 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
A love ballad lyric, I wrote c.1979.
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Written on 1979
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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