Analysis of ISLAND OF DEATH
On the island of death
Only lonesome losers go,
Rocks cover the dead red sand
Where nothing worthwhile grows.
Weeds and poison ivy
Proliferate round a foul lagoon,
Ready to rain down death
Upon any beast that consumes.
Only stunted creatures
Live on this foul abode,
Where nothing decent
lives for long
And only twisted weeds can grow.
The birds twill a song of death
A hopeless, loathsome dirge,
And stay above the burning sands
Where only evil things emerge.
Creatures from some nightmare world
Live just below the red sands,
Horrors from some fever dream
Fit only for this hope-shunned land.
On the island of death
No promises are ever kept,
And any thought of rescue
Is soon bereft.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Abcx xxax xxxxb aded xexc Axxx xxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 1010101 1100111 110111 101010 01010101 101111 01101101 101010 111101 11010 111 01010111 0110111 010101 01010101 11010101 101111 1101011 1011101 11011111 101011 11001101 0101110 1101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 762 |
| Words | 130 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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On the island of death Only lonesome losers go, Rocks cover the dead red sand Where nothing worthwhile grows.
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Written on July 18, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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