Analysis of TERROR TIME
The night-time is terror time
The time when evil things abound,
Bat-winged monsters fly overhead
Burrowers tunnel underground.
Prehistoric creatures appear
Ravenous and looking for meat,
Hunting both humans and fauna
Needing very soon to eat.
Terror lurks in every shadow
And down every dark alleyway,
When humans sleep in their beds
Hideous beings come out to play.
Ape-like animals walk the streets
Climbing lamps to look for prey,
Scaling easily the drain pipes
Hunting 'neath the moon's dire rays.
Looking through padlocked windows
Lusting after innocents who sleep,
But afraid to break the glass panes
So round the house they slowly creep.
Gigantic Shoggoths overhead
Search the village on the wing,
Looking for a sign of movement
Ready to eat almost anything.
Night Gaunts haunt the town
Spreading terror in their wake,
With an undying hunger that
Nothing but a feast could slake.
The night-time is terror time
When witches and goblins roam,
And when the wary stay inside
Safely abed in their own home.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb xded xfxf xfxx xgxg chxh xxxh Aixi xxe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 01110101 11101101 1001010 0101001 10001011 10110010 1010111 10101001 01100110 1101011 100101111 11100101 1011111 10100011 1010111 101110 101010011 10111011 11011101 0101101 1010101 10101110 1011110 11101 1010011 11010101 1010111 0111101 1100101 01010101 10010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,046 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The night-time is terror time The time when evil things abound, Bat-winged monsters fly overhead Burrowers tunnel underground.
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Written on September 25, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 12, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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