Analysis of FEAR THE REAPER
Late one moonless night
Comes a figure draped in black,
Stealing human lives.
Taking away the life force
Of his victim; now a corpse.
Silently he creeps
Through dark and dingy alleys,
Scything all he finds.
Taking only the seared soul
Leaving the human vessel.
Scything human prey
Like corn scythed in the summer:
Death personified.
Creeping slowly through the dark
Of a victim’s sleeping room.
Slowly raising death
In the form of a honed blade,
To a sleeping child.
Aiming toward a pale neck
Cleaving him or her in twain.
Right across the Earth
Human prey keep on falling,
As he steals their souls.
No human life is sacred
To this loathsome, creeping fiend.
Another life falls
To the midnight reaper’s blade,
As he cuts the flock.
Culling all humanity
Without fear or prejudice.
No one knows he’s real
They think him but a legend,
Yet he walks in truth.
Reaping all and sundry
Slinking through this awful town.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XXX XX XXX XX XXX XX XAX XX XXX XX XAX BX XXX BX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1010101 10101 1001011 1110101 10011 1101010 1111 1010011 1001010 1101 1110010 1010 1010101 1010101 10101 0011011 10101 1001011 111001 10101 1011110 11111 1101110 1110101 01011 10111 11101 1010100 0111100 11111 1111010 11101 101010 111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 952 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
A renge style poem about the grim reaper.
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Written on August 02, 2012
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 11, 2021
Modified on April 26, 2023
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