Emergency
Mohamed Okab Abdul Kareem Okab 1994 (Assuit)
Life-or-death emergency
Members of the code blue team are running.
Somebody says, "despair, despair."
We are guilty. No ifs ands or buts
About this poem
The literal meaning of the poem It is an imagery poem that describes a hopeless case in a hospital. Doctors hear the code blue. We use this code only in those conditions. Doctors run fast, but in vain. They can't save the case, and the patient dies.
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Submitted by Mohamedokab on February 27, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 136 |
Words | 24 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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