Analysis of Liverpool
This brick stood still a hundred years
And weeds overruled the vote
If my home home town was Mersey
We’d have jumped that fucking moat
of these fake castles from that time
That grew from then to trade in kind,
For betterment of man who failed
While furnaces churned and fear prevailed.
I felt it in my soul
Smelled it like I knew, but couldn’t grasp
The bitter pain of pride upheld
On backs of working man.
To now we leap across divides
Still scrap and paint and foul declines
Then not…..
We see the tendrils curl
And life emerges from the burn
Slowly, slowly metal grinds
And pipe to water yet still finds it’s place
In modern beauty laced with past.
Haul it in, haul it up, make it strong
Again
The embers of decrepit, will force your mind to bend.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 010101 1111111 1111101 11110111 11111101 11001111 11010101 111011 11111111 01011101 111101 11110101 11010101 11 11011 01010101 1010101 0111011111 01010111 110111111 01 0101010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 11 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
About this poem
As an English girl living in the U.S I remember as a girl that Liverpool as an ugly, smoky town. but with a tough but gritty energy. The docks were a scary, dark and fearful place. My poem honored the evolution of its’ transformation some 40 years later.
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