The Elephant
The Elephant
The Elephant is a magnificent beast
Whose existence will abruptly cease!
Unless we stop the slaughter
They will all become deceased
Elephants are hunted
For their Ivory and meat
To be made into delicate rings,
Intricate brooches
Or stylised letter openers
We stop the genocide
For their foot stooled feet
We must stop this wicked trade
And hunt the poachers who
Recklessly kill this animal
Unless we halt the carnage
Like their ancestors the Mammoths
That survived the Ice Age
The African and Indian Elephant
Despite their “Endangered” status
Will be finished, kaput, extinguished!
Kaci Tami Wednesday, November 23, 2011
About this poem
This poem raises awareness of the poaching of elephants for their ivory and how greed and quick profits are behind the decimation of elephants, especially the African elephants
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Submitted by taminator2016 on December 08, 2022
Modified on April 06, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCDB XEXCX XEXXX XXXAXX D |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 641 |
| Words | 109 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6, 1 |
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