Pantoum of the Great Depression by Donald JusticeĀ tells the story of a time of economic crisis in the United States. The details and repetition add to the feeling of never being able to free oneself from circumstances of the present. (But remarkably, people often do.)
From the poem:
It was the ordinary pities and fears consumed us,
And if we suffered we kept quiet about it.
No audience would ever know our story.
Pantoum of the Great Depression: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/features/19980920.htm
