Earth
All the years we mined up coal,
processing and industry took its toll.
Decades of commitment to non-stop refining,
contributed to our gas levels climbing.
Abused it, overused it, left it bare.
Polluted with gases congesting the air.
Resulting from letting our own problems sit,
Earth is now dead, and we have killed it.
About this poem
Immediately the first topic I thought of when writing an elegy.
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Written on April 20, 2022
Submitted by Liam_MCX on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABBCCDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 321 |
Words | 61 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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