Pessimistic Express
E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)
Take a flight of fancy, to a past tale
where failures win and successors fail.
pessimistic express, all aboard please
we take you nowhere but still charge the fees
your journey is winding, twisting and long
like music with no melody or a tune with no song
as long as it takes and as hard as you try
in the end you've gone nowhere the worlds passed you by
so all aboard please the pessimistic express
to the future of regret, despair and excess
the land of the scared the home of the weak
we've arrived once again at pessimist peak
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Submitted by almostemily on May 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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