Analysis of Nature
We first met when I was young.
Curious, expectant, open-minded
We explored each other freely,
Communing face to face
Sharing everything
Seeking each other's company, together
Under the open sky.
Middle aged we met again.
Striving, over-reaching, exploitative
We looked to our own advantage.
Stormy clouds gathering
On the horizon,
Presaging dangerous times ahead of us
Under the threat'ning sky.
Now I am older I see her
Dull-eyed, disconsolate, all too aware
Of what we were and have become.
Her cycle confused,
Stripped bare, ripped apart
Craving to be isolate, for solitude
Under the darkened sky.
She will still be there when I'm gone.
Forgotten, unrecognised, unaware
Of what we once had and had lost.
Her nature restored,
Newly clothed, new born
Thriving in her renewed joy in life
Under the spring sun sky.
Scheme | XXXXABC XXXAXXC BDXXXXC XDXXXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1000101010 10111010 010111 1010 10110100010 100101 1011101 101010100 111101010 101100 10010 10010010111 100111 11110110 1111101 11100101 01001 11101 101110110 100101 11111111 010101 11111011 01001 10111 100001101 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
I wrote this after watching documentaries about the natural world on TV. It reflects the way man's relationship to nature has changed during my lifetime, since the early 1960s.
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