Analysis of Earth
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.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 1000100111 011010111010 010011011010 011011111 010110101 010110101101 111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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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