Analysis of AFTER NIGHTFALL COMES
After nightfall comes
In this loathsome place,
Great travesties abounding.
Creatures out of nightmares
Mutations or throwbacks,
Like badly drawn toons.
Faces only half-formed
On bodies that don't fit,
Legs that carry them.
Some have two faces
On bodies strange and lumpy,
And legs barely sticks.
Tails composed of spikes
Like on a giant porcupine,
Lethal when swished.
After nightfall comes
Abominations teeming,
On this awful world.
Purple grass and plants
Feed this bizarre menagerie,
When they can't get meat.
Yellow oceans flush
With horrendous life forms,
More like mammals than fish.
Man-eating piscine
That leap out of the waters,
Snatching fishermen.
No end to horrors
Stalking each other and you,
In this horrid land.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Axb xaa xxx xcx xdx Abx xcx xxx dex exx xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 01101 1100010 10111 01011 11011 101011 110111 11101 11110 1101010 01101 10111 1101010 1011 1011 110 11101 10101 11010100 11111 10101 11011 111011 1101 1111010 10100 11110 1011001 01101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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After nightfall comes In this loathsome place, Great travesties abounding.
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