Analysis of Hell frozen over
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Darkness and coldness
Not the heat of classic Hell,
Views of a kingdom
Of seemingly endless space,
A vast chilling emptiness.
Icy vistas loom
For miles in all directions,
No sign of people
Humanity passed away?
Or are survivors hiding?
An icy wasteland
Coming from global warming,
Once pollution rose
And surrounded the whole Earth,
The Sun's heat could not get through.
Frozen tundra lands
Once the domain of livestock,
Many and all kinds
Now few creatures can survive,
Upon this frozen planet.
Darkness reigns supreme
Coldness that can't be believed,
By those left behind
A vast endless emptiness,
Where humans once were rulers.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AXXXA XXXXB XBXXX XXXXX XXXAX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1011101 11010 1100101 0110100 10101 1101010 11110 0100101 1101010 1101 1011010 10101 0010011 0111111 10101 100111 10011 1110101 0111010 10101 1011101 11101 0110100 1101010 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 676 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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