Analysis of THE WOODSMAN
The woodsman is a freak of nature
Surely nothing made by God,
He lives in a doom-haunted forest
In which all life is a little odd.
He's made of wood, bark, and vines
All encircled by monstrous leaves,
He draws his energy from the sun
And never even needs to breathe.
Lurching through the evil forest
He searches for quarry to kill,
Murder is in his very essence
He wreaks mayhem for a thrill.
Human or beast he doesn't care which
All life is equally worthless to him,
And so he hunts and kills innocents
All to fulfill a monstrous whim.
Wooden creaking as he moves
Alerting birds and insects to run,
Yet still, he hopes to make a killing
Long before this day is done.
Blending into tree trunks
He can vanish from human sight,
Then he reaches out as they pass
Killing them for sheer delight.
Wringing their necks with wooden hands
Or pulling their limbs from the sockets,
Nothing they do can stop his death spree
Except for one item in their pockets.
Pulling out a lighter or matches
Humanity can finally fight back,
Igniting the wooden rampager
Burning him into charcoal black.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCB XXDX CEXE XFXF XDXD XGXG XHXH XIAI XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010101110 1010111 110011010 011110101 1111101 10101101 111100101 01010111 10101010 11011011 101011010 111101 101111011 1111001011 011101100 11010101 1010111 01010111 111111010 1011111 100111 11101101 11101111 1011101 10111101 110111010 101111111 0111100110 101010110 0100110011 01001010 1010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,115 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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The woodsman is a freak of nature Surely nothing made by God,
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Written on August 06, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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