Analysis of THE DARK OF THE NIGHT
Night evil beckons
Darkness roars down on its prey,
Unwary below.
Darkness comes:
Evil creeps upon you,
Using the shadows for cover.
Dark moon overhead
Foreteller of great evil,
Creeping, slinking death.
Whirling images of
Faces and hands, in the dark night;
Closing in on you.
Dark shadows beckon:
Evil in the night; you can’t
Resist its sweet call.
Night’s dark shadows hide
All manner of evil,
Lurking just beyond sight.
Through the dark night woods
Run evil, loping creatures,
Hunting human prey.
Dark shapes are crouching
On fearful elder structures,
Readying to pounce.
Dark side of night, where
Evil stalks the alleys, to
Search for lonely souls.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAX XBX XCX XDB XXX XCD XEA XEX XBX XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11010 1011111 01001 101 101011 1001110 11101 11110 1011 101001 10010011 10011 1110 1000111 01111 1111 110110 101011 10111 110110 10101 11110 1101010 10011 11111 1010101 11101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
Night evil beckons Darkness roars down on its prey, Unwary below.
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Written on March 15, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 28, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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