WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
Oh no! what have we done?
To the world's oceans every one
All the sea creatures are paying a terrible price
This wonderful world will be a far lesser place
Some of the most beautiful creatures ever created
Are on the brink of being decimated
We'll probably never ever be able
To stop this pollution and turn the table
The clean-up plan must be really drastic
We have to rid the ocean's of all that plastic
We must stop committing this terrible crime
We must stop it now before we run out of time
We keep on polluting as if we couldn't care less
There's not much time left to clean up our mess
After we've ruined their beautiful habitat
Our descendants will surely hate us all for that.
About this poem
A poem about pollution.
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Written on 2023
Submitted by george.ellis.lrps on February 19, 2024
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Scheme | AAXX XXBB CCDD EEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 133 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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