Analysis of STRANGE ARCHAEOLOGY
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Grave-robbers stumble
'Cross corpses that come to life;
Reaching out for them.
Mummified creatures
Returning to life to hunt,
The desecraters.
Ancient guardians
From another time and place,
Protecting treasures.
Tomb violators
Find more than they bargained for,
In an ancient crypt.
Royal protectors
Guarding burial chambers,
From modern looters.
Aeons-dead beings
Returned to life one more,
At unfamiliar steps.
Shambling dead tomb dwellers
Tackling modern thieves,
Tearing them limb from limb.
Strange archaeology
Ancient minders killer,
Modern tresspassers.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XXX AXA XXA ABX AAA XBX AXX XXA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 1101111 10111 1010 0101111 01 10100 1010101 01010 11000 1111101 01101 10010 1010010 11010 1110 011111 10101 11110 10101 101111 10100 10110 101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 606 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
This started out as a single haiku, then years later I expanded it into a much longer poem.
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Written on March 05, 2007
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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