Analysis of A DARK OBELISK
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
A black obelisk
Marked with weird hieroglyphs,
A tribute to evil.
Ancient stone monument
Used by lost cultures,
To worship evil gods?
Night black marble
Weighing hundreds of tonnes,
Making up this artefact.
Carven by Aztecs?
Perhaps by ancient aliens?
No-one is quite sure.
Held by the locals
To contain great magic,
Neither good nor evil.
Many millennia old
Chiselled aeons ago,
No-one can say when.
Good magic rituals
Are performed around it,
By shaman by day.
Black magic rites
Are performed in dead of night,
Around the obelisk.
Black shining marble
Appearing almost alive,
In the broad sunlight.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AXB CXX BDC XDX EAB XAX EXX XFA BXF XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 011 11101 010110 101100 11110 110101 1110 101011 10111 111 01110100 11111 11010 101110 101110 1001001 1101 11111 110100 101011 11011 1101 1010111 0101 11010 010101 0011 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 644 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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A black obelisk Marked with weird hieroglyphs, A tribute to evil.
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Written on October 11, 2003
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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