Outback
Five dreary days of thundering
Along a rough, red dirt track
Past a shimmering, crystallised pool
Through an abandoned desert
Ignoring another disturbance to its peaceful slumber
The low rumble of the engine becomes weaker and weaker as the hours go by,
As the journey continues.
The fiery sunset explodes
Setting the whole world alight.
Illuminating the dancing trees,
The waving bushes,
Only for them to disappear in a dust storm
Sometimes the moon comes to say hello,
And gives the animated plants a rest.
When the distant lights and hushed murmurs
Signify the day is over
And another one arrives, bringing nothing but familiar
With a harsh, sudden dread
That the journey will never end
Until, at last, a new sight is seen
Past the misty, murky river
And the dry plains
The tall, dead gums
The big, stiff bushes
Home.
About this poem
about the australian landscape :)
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Written on August 04, 2021
Submitted on August 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXXA XX XXXBX XXXA AXX XAXXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 142 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 5, 4, 3, 5 |
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