Analysis of REVULSION

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



A fever grips your mind
Your dreams are truly vile:

A severed hand, still alive
A changeling:
Wolfman by full moon;
The creature from
The black lagoon.
Blue beard sporting
A gleaming knife;
To slaughter yet another wife.
Vampires changing INto bats
Then crawl around the floor as rats.
The headless horseman
And his fiery black steed;
Are riding out
Across the reeds.

A gargoyle
Yes, and Captain Gore;
The talons of the giant claw;
Swooping down then
Eating humans raw.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme XX XABXBACCDDXXXX XXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 010111 111101 0101101 01 10111 0101 0101 1110 0101 11010101 1010011 11010111 01010 0110011 1101 0101 01 10101 01010101 1011 10101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 518
Words 91
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 14, 5, 3
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

A very early poem, c.1973.

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Written on 1973

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

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