Analysis of LOATHSOME CREEK
Loathsome Creek is fetid green
And nothing decent could live there,
But indecent creatures roam the banks
And blighted things fly through the air.
Rivermen creep through the gloom
Of a fog that surrounds the creek,
A permanent shroud around the water
Where half-dead things foully reek.
Risen from the murky grossness
Gilled humanoids walk onto land,
Breathing either air or water
As they give the Rivermen a hand:
Rivermen and the Gila Man
Set out through the evil shore,
Looking for innocents to kill
Wanting villages to explore.
Human meat is their favourite
And they murder just to eat,
Killing men, women, children
All to sate their evil needs.
Loathsome Creek is fetid green
Slimy moss grows near the water,
Lethal reeds grow in the creek
Hoping soon to commit a slaughter.
As animals warily cross the creek
Reeds reach out, lashing after them,
Trying to drag them to their doom
Drowning them in water like phlegm.
Through the water, dead things swim
In the slimy, oily, mouldy creek,
Where nothing good ever comes
But Rivermen come out to seek:
Seeking guileless beasts to murder
Then to skin and slowly devour,
In the misty, shrouded environs
Every minute is like the witching hour.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb defe cgfg xhxh gxxx Afef eidi xexe ffxf xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 01010111 101010101 01011101 11101 10110101 0100101010 111111 1010101 111101 10101110 1110101 100101 1110101 10110011 10100101 101111 0110111 1011010 1111101 1011101 10111010 1011001 101101010 1100100101 11110101 10111111 10101011 1010111 001010101 1101101 111111 10101110 111010010 001010010 100101101010 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,272 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Loathsome Creek is fetid green And nothing decent could live there, But indecent creatures roam the banks And blighted things fly through the air.
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Written on July 18, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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