A Lament For Futurity
I weep for trees and forests,
We laid them all to waste.
Will children have no air to breath,
No atmosphere to taste?
I weep for mighty oceans
We trashed them to the brim.
Will children of the life therein
Protract no place to swim?
I weep for northern icelands,
A thawing polar crown.
Will children of the Inuit
Become condemned to drown?
I weep for fields and meadows,
Poisoned long ago.
Will children of the landscape
Reap no seeds to sow?
I weep for man's futurity
Ere I take my sleep.
Will children of the morning's dawn
Beget no tears to weep?
About this poem
A look into what our planet may hold for the future. A 2020 write with a gentle rhyming scheme of a b c b... and so on.
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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on June 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXB XCXC ADXD XXXX BEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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