Analysis of WHAT ARE WE DOING?
George Ellis QAVS.LRPS. 1948 (Luton)
What are we doing you and me?
Why are we killing the creatures of the sea?
Our oceans are dying because of our waste
Plastics of all kinds we have discarded in haste
Being swallowed by fish and mammals alike
It's a terrible thing we're doing to the creatures we like
Dying as their stomachs fill with indigestible plastic
We must act now as the situation's drastic
Stop we must, this terrible crime
We must stop it now before we run out of time
All the creatures of the seas deserve better than this
Our future generation's will hate us for our remiss
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 11110010101 1010110011101 101111101001 10101101001 101001110101011 10111011110 11111001010 11111001 111110111111 1010101011011 101001011111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 554 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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A poem about plastic waste.
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