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Earth

W. Gerba

Elegy
All the years we mined up coal,
processing and industry took its toll.
Decades of commitment to non-stop refining,
contributed to our gas levels climbing.
Abused it, overused it, left it bare.
Polluted with gases congesting the air.
Resulting from letting our own problems sit,
Earth is now dead, and we have killed it.

About this poem

Immediately the first topic I thought of when writing an elegy.

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Written on April 20, 2022

Submitted by Liam_MCX on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 321
Words 61
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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