Analysis of WORLD ON FIRE
In a future not far off
I see a world on fire,
As war turns into holocaust
We'll all burn upon the pyre.
In this world post-apocalypse
Foul creatures will walk the Earth,
Human and inhuman monsters
Will encircle its entire girth.
Demons like you have never seen
Will walk the planet for sure,
Fiends out of your horror tales
Travellers, Ghouls, and Manticore.
Abominations come to life
To fulfill your most fevered dreams,
Blue Men, Green Men, Hypno too
Beings to make a strong man scream.
In the awful time that is at hand
Very few dare to stand up tall,
Most cower in their basements
Afraid to journey outside at all.
Murder, mayhem, even rape
Will all then proliferate,
Crimes of passion everywhere
Racial crimes of hate.
As the world is tumbling down
Biker gangs will rule the roost,
Breaking into homes for fun
To abuse, to use, to loot.
Totalitarian rulers will emerge
Stormtroopers surely will abound,
To knock society off its feet
And then to keep it truly down.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXA XXXX XCXC XDXD EXXX XXXE XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010111 1101110 1110110 11101010 0111010 1101101 10001010 101010101 10111101 1101011 1111101 100101 1111 10111101 111111 10110111 001011111 10111111 1100110 011101111 101101 111010 111010 10111 10111001 1011101 1001111 1011111 010010101 110101 110100111 01111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,008 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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In a future not far off I see a world on fire, As war turns into holocaust We'll all burn upon the pyre.
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Written on August 02, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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