Analysis of Earth's Last Breath



O’ lonely stone, lying there;
Once a mountain you did wear;
People went to stop and stare,
But now your earth is cold and bare.

O’ mighty oak, so tall and grim;
Did they go to chop and trim?
And turn you soft and cut you slim,
Until there stands a mound of limb?

O’ reckless rapids, whirling fast;
We all know you were harassed;
If you stop, we raise the mast!
Take a moment, let time pass;

And last of all, the bitter breeze;
Called out to skylines, moaning please;
Quarried, rotting, and disease;
Nature died with one last wheeze.


Scheme AAAA BBBB CCCX DDDD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1101101 1010111 1011101 11111101 11011101 1111101 01110111 01110111 11010101 1111001 1111101 1010111 01110101 1111101 110001 1011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 523
Words 101
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by Diminos on February 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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