Analysis of DOWNTOWN VERSUS UPTOWN



~DOWNTOWN VERSUS UPTOWN~

Downtown on a fateful day
I had a deep thought
I thought I'd never seen myself messed up Next thing I saw a trailer fell off, off it fell That precarious scenario got me pissed off When I acted as a spectator I never doubted the life at downtown
Vehicles dangled and went ballistic, which made my belly run down.

Downtown ride turned a hell in a cell
As we journeyed from kilo to kilo
Heads and body rang bell
We got chocked up like the grain stored in a silo.

Downtown later had mercy on us
I spoke my mind, some even said It's now downing on us
But if the road is no longer accessible, we will start riding on horse.

Kilos older, we went downtown to uptown I had to compare and contrast
A juxtaposition of two feature (s)
Two features in complete contrast
Same creator but different nature.

My maimed feeling evaporated when I saw a voluptuous angel
She hails from uptown
She gave me a glimmer of hope that things will get better
I was bereft of words when I noticed she looks exactly like the apple fruit she held.

But uptown never cease to show us the stuff it was made of
Many times, I needed to lower my gaze Many girls innumerable in their base
We journeyed far and far apart and there was no time to waste
I looked no more because we were in a haste
The more you gaze up, the more you see your taste
The life at downtown and uptown is indeed a case.


Scheme A XXAA BCBC DDX EXEF XAFX XGHHHG
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 1110101 11011 11110111111110101111110100010011111110101001101001111 10010010101111011 111101001 11101111 101011 111110110010 111011011 11111101111011 1101111001001111011 110111111111101010 0001011101 11000110 1010110010 111001001110010010 11111 11101011111110 1101111110110101010111 111101111011111 1011101101110101000011 110101010111111 11110110001 01111011111 0111101110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,399
Words 290
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 38

About this poem

The poem actually compares the life in rural area depicted as downtown and urban area depicted as uptown with regards to nature.

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Written on May 25, 2022

Submitted by abuhafs4111 on September 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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