Analysis of NIGHTMARE FEAST



Nightmare thoughts abound
Of people cooked in stew-pots,
So monsters may feast.

Men and women stewed
Children cooked with their mothers;
Fathers watch in shock.

Children and babies
Are prepared like suckling pigs,
For a monstrous feast.

Women ravished then
Impaled mouth to vagina,
Then placed on the spit.

Demons feed upon
Human meat, bone, and entrails,
Food that pleads and screams.

Castrated men hung
On butchers’ hooks while waiting,
To be cooked alive.

Red-eyed monsters feast
Gorging beneath the moonlight,
Soon to flee the sun.

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


Scheme XXA XXX XXA XBX XXX XXX AXX XXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1101011 11011 10101 1011110 10101 10010 1011101 10101 1011 0111010 11101 10101 1011010 11101 1011 1101110 11101 11101 10101 11101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 586
Words 96
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 12

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Nightmare thoughts abound Of people cooked in stew-pots, So monsters may feast.

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Written on 1979

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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