Analysis of Souls lost in life’s storms
Souls lost in life’s storms
Just struggling to survive,
No longer daring to strive or hope
Just desperate to stay alive.
They no longer strive for betterment
For success has passed them by,
So it seems they’ve achieved a lot any day
When they manage just not to die.
Souls lost in the storms of life
Have lost all hope of success,
In their lives so full of failure
They’d gladly settle for second-best:
For second best is a big improvement
On what they have to settle for now,
For there’s no way up from the way they live
And there’s only one way out:
But the only way out is deemed a sin
And for most too hard to contemplate,
So they suffer through life’s dreadful storms
Without understanding their awful fate.
The Lord it seems has abandoned them
So they have no benefactors,
And when they dare to beg for help
They have myriad detractors.
Detractors who call them bludgers
And say they don’t want to work,
Say they’re only ne’er-do-wells
Living but to shirk.
”Why the hell don’t you get a job!”
Their foul detractors shriek,
Then turn their backs and walk away
Leaving them to die there in the street.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB CDED XXXX CXBX XFAF XGXG AHXH XXEX XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011 1100101 110101111 1101101 111011100 1011111 11110101101 11101111 1100111 1111101 01111110 110101101 1101101010 111111011 1111110111 0110111 1010111101 01111110 111011101 010101101 011110101 1111100 01111111 11100010 0101111 0111111 1110111 10111 10111101 110101 11110101 101111001 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,167 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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