Analysis of THE PLUNDERERS
Just like the pirates of old
The Plunderers like to pillage,
Raiding throughout the country
From any town to every village.
Wise folk stay locked safe inside
To avoid these demented savages,
Who plunder all before them
To steal, to main, to ravage.
The Plunderers are like locusts
They can pick a whole town bare,
In days or weeks, they loot and kill
Until nothing is left standing there.
They devastate the countryside
Leaving mere detritus in their wake,
Destroying every living thing
No matter how long it takes.
Despoiling everything beautiful
Leaving only ugliness behind,
The Plunderers are partly human
And partly monstrous animal-kind.
Kidnapping gorgeous woman
To turn into their wives,
But men, children, ugly women
Nome of them ever survives.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXX BXXA XCXC BXXX XDED EFEF XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 011110 1001010 1101110010 1111101 1011010100 1101011 1111110 011110 1110111 01111101 011011101 110010 101010011 010100101 1101111 110100 101010001 0111010 010101001 101010 110111 11101010 1111001 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 833 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Just like the pirates of old The Plunderers like to pillage, Raiding throughout the country From any town to every village.
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Written on November 15, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on January 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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