Analysis of Starving Poetry



This is starving poetry,
   written `cause I'm famished.
I don't need filet mignon.
   I'm happy with a sandwich.
Writing just to advertise
   the skills that I possess.
Trying to attract the funds
   with which I can attempt purchase.

It seems that just to buy some food
   these days I must be rich,
Or popular on Instagram, or
   maybe YouTube or Twitch.
But I'm too much a loner.
   Scarce few know what foods I eat.
And I'm not one to say much about
   what foods I find a treat.

I won't often treat myself
   although I like the taste
Because I must control  the costs,
   and my expanding waist.
It's like I'm on a diet,
   but because of allergy,
I've learned that there's scarce little
   food out there that's good for me.

I'm frustrated and tired,
   probably 'cause I'm hungry, and
Despite the fact that I see food,
   I can't just go and eat.
So despite that I'm hungry
   and there's food where 'er I see,
I'll have to vent my frustrations
   just writing poetry.


Scheme AXXBXXXX CBXBXDXD XEXEXAXA XXCDAAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100 101110 1110110 1101010 101110 011101 1010101 11110110 11111111 111111 1100111 10111 1111010 1111111 011111101 111101 111011 11101 01110101 010101 1111010 1011100 1111110 1111111 110010 10011100 01011111 111101 1011110 0111011 11111010 110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 982
Words 199
Sentences 13
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 44

About this poem

This world is messed up. There's so much food that could be eaten. Yet some of it is arrogantly and foolishly destroyed, and much of the rest is collected around a select few where it gets half-eaten and discarded. Despite all of that, I'm not talking about food.

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Written on August 27, 2023

Submitted by ranando_k on August 27, 2023

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