Analysis of What the Gods gave us



In the beginning, you may not have understood
Why I lay under the tree's shielding arch,
 Why I smell the flowers at their best,
Or why I watch the ants march
 Over Mother Nature's chest.

You may not have understood
Why I listen to the waterfall's cry
Or watch how the spring sky's hue
would clear the waters eyes and lay it with radiance
As ducklings danced in the warmth
Over Mother Nature's chest.

Nevertheless, as the sun went to rest
And the moon took over the heavens,
A kaleidoscope of stars appeared over our reach
That generations of others had lay beneath.
In its infinite reach, it would light the darkness that surrounded us
As the north wind would sing us to sleep
Oh, how life was wondrous as we rested
Over Mother Nature's chest.

As the leaves fell from their thrones
And the creatures began to hide
The earth painted a mural of life-
Before winter crept once again,
Turning birdsong into slumber
Over Mother Nature's chest.

Despite the paragon of virtuous views
Man created a new bittersweet world out of nature's sight.

Calamities of disasters killed our mother natures land,
Scarring screeches of falling branches echoed across valleys;
Shaven trees cry out in the wind
From agony and vexation
Over man's new land.

The earth's heartbeat dances with the rhythm of a thousand earthquakes
While flames burn higher than the ocean's tide.
What the Gods gave to us was now eliminated
And now it was only
Man’s new land.


Scheme abcbC axxdxC cxxxxxeC dfxgxC xx hxxgh xfexh
Poetic Form
Metre 00010111101 1111001101 111010111 1111011 1010101 111101 11101011 1110111 1101010111100 1101001 1010101 001101111 001110010 0010110110101 10101101101 01100111101010101 101111111 1111101110 1010101 1011111 00100111 011001011 01101101 1010110 1010101 0101011001 10100110111101 0100101011010101 101011010100110 10111001 110001 10111 01110101010101 1111010101 101111110100 011110 111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,454
Words 283
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 6, 8, 6, 2, 5, 5
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 36

About this poem

This poem was inspired by the movement of environmental transformation in the Lake District, England. Living in a rural community that has to be protected from the effects of humanity and the industrialisation of our new world inspired me to write a poem based on my own experience of being surrounded by the modernised world and the change of our natural world.

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Written on April 05, 2023

Submitted by wiktoriakchrusciel on January 26, 2024

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