Analysis of More Precious than gold



You take it for granted ,
     more often than not
     abuse it  and waste it
      even foul it a lot.

But it's really a treasure
     unseen by  most
     a necessity in life
     by both parasite and host

Yet by mankind, plant,
     animal, or any other life
     it is needed day by day
     just to survive.

You appreciate warmth
     you know you need air
     can't do without light
     yet you  misused this without care

Ask the farmer, he certainly knows
     or people in the desserts which suffer the most

It is WATER  .. we all need to survive
     Let show some respect for it
     or we won't be alive.

Juanita Delgado Lazaro


Scheme XABA XCDC XDXE XFXF XC EBE X
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 11011 011011 101101 1110010 0111 0010001 111001 11111 100110101 1110111 1101 10101 11111 11011 11011011 101011001 110000111001 1110111101 1110111 111101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 652
Words 120
Sentences 5
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 3, 1
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 16

About this poem

I wrote this poem to remind us of the most precious thing in our life, water... something that we have taken for granted and we make it dirty.

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Written on September 11, 2023

Submitted by DELGADOJANET2012 on September 11, 2023

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Juanita Delgado Lazaro

I am a Filipino Canadian ,born in the Philippines who immigrated to Canada for a better life for my kids. I was a member of Samahang Makata in Taiwan for 3 years. I wrote poems since I was in high school . Majority of my poems are in Tagalog . I live in Toronto now. more…

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