Analysis of Death on the Road Thailand



A mangled body drained of blood
A horrific scene
Who is the man on the road
Natures cruelty on the road

Will his family be all alone
At the dinner table in the family home
Do they wait for the monthly pay
So that they may dream of a straw hut near the bay

His life is briefly glimpsed by a hoard of passersby
Puzzled short gasps travel the airways

Life in the tame land


Scheme XXAA XXBB XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01010111 00101 1101101 1010101 111001101 101010001001 11110101 111111011101 1111011011100 10111001 10011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 373
Words 78
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 2, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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Written on 1992

Submitted by lunghitano9 on January 03, 2022

Modified on April 21, 2023

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Giuseppe Lunghitano

Wrote quite a few poems whilst travelling in the 1990s more…

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