Analysis of THE RUNNER
The runner's coming fast your way
He races through the horrid night,
Chasing down the slow or lonely
Running 'neath a blood moon's light.
Like an Olympic distance runner
He keeps going hour after hour,
As if fatigue is unknown to him
Or he has some strange superpower.
Carrying a blade within a cane
He races on through the darkness,
Hoping soon to pass a walker
Whom he'll put to eternal rest.
The Runner is a loathsome thing
He's never running under the sun,
He only goes out in the moonlight
Hoping to bring another life undone.
Swishing with his lethal blade
Even while he is on the run,
He kills another young innocent
Just to have his monstrous fun.
The awful streets are his home
And after twilight is his time,
For running through the foul night
Hoping a victim soon to find.
He seeks out loners passing near
Because it is their time to die,
His cane thrashes as he's running
Vanishing quickly into the night.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XAXA BBXB XXBX CDAD XDXD XXAX XXCA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 11010101 10101110 1010111 110101010 1110101010 110110111 11111010 100010101 11011010 10111010 11110101 01010101 110101001 11011001 1011010101 111101 10111101 110101100 1111101 0101111 0101111 1101011 10010111 11110101 01111111 11101110 100100101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 959 |
| Words | 178 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
The runner's coming fast your way He races through the horrid night, Chasing down the slow or lonely Running 'neath a blood moon's light.
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Written on August 04, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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