Analysis of 2084
It’s winter in the year twenty-eighty-four
Hell has landed on every shore
Devilish eyes aglow as they rose to dominate
People now captive to a totalitarian state
Society is now ruled with an iron fist
You’ve seen those movies; you know the gist
Elders tell tales of an earth so free
Crossing great valleys and sailing the sea
I haven’t seen the sun since they poisoned the sky
We scurry in darkness, where the wealthy don’t pry
The air has a noxious opacity that stings my lungs
Those activists on pedestals just spoke in tongues
These decrepit streets are treacherous at night
Instead, we huddle together in flickering candlelight
Few can afford the luxury of simple power
The doomsday clock lurks just shy of the hour
We rummage through garbage for anything to eat
Surviving cold-drenched nights is no easy feat
The smell of street food, I’m teased by the air
I try not to stare, for that chance he may share
I’m enslaved by demons who pull the strings
There’s no escape; they’ve clipped my wings
Can’t we break this monotonous chain?
Let’s rip it all up and start again
I tearfully weep, “It’s not meant to be this way”
I’m tired of being some sick monster’s prey
Every night I dream of the same old prize
That the darkness be pierced by a golden sunrise
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKXX LLMM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11000110101 111011001 10101111110 101101001001 010011111101 111101101 101111111 1011001001 11101111001 110010101011 01101001001111 110011001101 10101110011 01110010010010 1101010011010 0111111010 11011011011 01011111101 0111111101 11111111111 1011101101 11011111 111101001 111110101 110011111111 11011011101 10011110111 10101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,293 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
This poem touches on the fall of society into a nightmarish dystopia where humanity is at the mercy of a totalitarian regime.
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Written on March 24, 2024
Submitted by Lee_Geoghegan on March 24, 2024
Modified by Lee_Geoghegan on March 24, 2024
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