Analysis of DEATH STALKING

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Death comes slowly stalking
From out of the red desert sand,
Sneaking through a haunted forest
Slinking across foul wastelands.

In a town named purgatory
Death has truly come to stay,
Creeping around streets and alleys
As it begins its monstrous play.

While innocents hide inside
Death hunts down lone street folk,
And as screaming breaks the silence
Suddenly the guileless have awoke.

Lying in their own warm beds
They hear the sound of awful death,
Hoping soon to fall back asleep
Too scared to breathe a single breath.

Outside in the doom-haunted streets
Death seeks out the broken and old,
Approaching slowly through the dark
Until touching them with its icy cold.

Death comes slowly stalking
Through a long-forgotten town,
Where no-one merely moves in
Instead, they are moving down.

In a town named purgatory
All truth and justice has flown,
And now only evil lives there
And hope and dreams are unknown.

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


Scheme Axxb Cdbd xebe bfxf bgxg Ahxh Cixi xbx
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 11101101 10101010 10111 0011100 1110111 10011010 11011101 1100101 111111 01101010 100010101 1001111 11011101 10111101 11110101 11001101 11101001 01010101 0110111101 111010 1010101 1111010 0111101 0011100 1101011 01101011 0101101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 951
Words 164
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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Death comes slowly stalking From out of the red desert sand, Sneaking through a haunted forest Slinking across foul wastelands.

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Written on September 24, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 09, 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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