How Many Stories Does a Picture Tell
How Many Stories Does a Picture Tell
What could go wrong
Judging a book by its cover
A big business nowadays
Digitally printed so enticing
Covers scream buy this book
Satellites flying over the poles
Always snapping pictures
Year after year clearly seen
The surface area of the ice
Spreading out and receding
Supposedly vital information
It’s hard to read a soggy book
Melting from the bottom up
Shallow depth of the ice
Never even suspected
The poles already melted
Just haven’t finished yet
About this poem
What could go wrong, judging a book by its cover
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Written on 2018
Submitted by rzwilling on May 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | X XXXAB XXXCAX BXCDDX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 87 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 6, 6 |
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