Analysis of I watched the news today…
I watched the news today.
There’s a war again.
people fighting
Babies dying
Calamity has won.
I watched the news today
Another child’s been stabbed.
Mothers wailing
Systems failing
Please, not another one.
I watched the news today
The planets slowly dying.
Storms are raging
Fires blazing
My God, what have we done?
…I don’t want to turn the tv on today.
There’s nothing I can do
Mind is racing
Heart is breaking
I’m sympathetic ..and I’m numb.
| Scheme | Axbbc Axbbc Abbbc axbbx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (35%) |
| Metre | 110101 10101 1010 1010 010011 110101 010111 1010 1010 110101 110101 0101010 1110 1010 111111 11111011101 110111 1110 1110 1010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The feeling of helplessness whilst watching all the turmoil in the world occur.
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