Analysis of Una Lived
Nathanial Madden 2008 (Kildare)
Una lived on the southside of Oola,
Where she turned from a girl who loved gúnaí,
To an adolescent who was feared like Adolf in the forties but in the twenty-first century,
She got laid off from her own investment plan,
Became addicted to anti-depressants,
had to get restricted,
before getting convicted,
drinking liquid like its thick mud,
even though it's just hard liquor,
in order to cope with acceptance,
of her corrections and own duds,
switched to cocaine instead,
It was a bigger kicker to the battle,
whom she stood with,
till she abstained, but it caused more pain,
was a constant refresher,
of her misconduct,
which led to the ending of her enraged
Downward spiral fall of a life,
couldn't take it no more,
She ran for miles,
miles and miles
no files or smiles
The dispense of emotion hit,
until met with two choices,
only one to be chosen,
She turned to see the devil,
telling her she isn't special,
She's only a pebble.
That area isn't level,
that there's one way out of her trouble,
and that's to end the light at the tunnel's finish line,
puzzled but not confused,
She thought about it more and more.
till the clock struck one,
She sat down. She thought it was the end.
calling up her mother and brothers,
One last time,
lost in time,
Ulla came into the devil's grasp,
death grabbed her,
and rolled her up like some grass,
The TV licence wasn't paid,
This is an issue.
get rid of this blasphemy.
and out with the real devils,
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 1111011111 110101111100010100101100 11111010101 01010110010 111010 0110010 10101111 10111110 010111010 10010011 110101 11010101010 1111 110111111 1010010 10010 1110101001 10101101 101111 1111 101 1111 00110101 0111110 1011110 1111010 10011010 110010 11001010 111111010 0111011010101 101101 11011101 10111 111111101 101010010 111 101 11010101 110 0101111 01110101 11110 1111100 0110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,615 |
Words | 401 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 46 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
This poem is about how something as little like not paying the TV licence can ruin someone's life.
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