Analysis of Happening

Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)



Now
I am
Asking you
What's happening?
Is it climate change?

Floods, heatwaves, around the globe..

Have we brought it on ourselves?
Confusion to their face
They opened their mouth
To Blaspheme God

O what fools
Judgement
Sure.


Scheme XXXXX X XXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1 11 101 1100 11101 110101 11111001 010111 11011 111 111 10 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 232
Words 50
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 1, 4, 3
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Written on July 17, 2023

Submitted by myway6119 on July 16, 2023

Modified by myway6119 on July 16, 2023

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