Analysis of DARK MEETING



A dark meeting held late at night
Where all manner of fiends meet,
Out in the lonesome hilltops
Concealed from the bustling streets.

A fallen priest tries conjuring
Up all kinds of satanic evils,
Imps, goblins, and elfin things
Twirling in monstrous revel.

Around a moonlight altar
Abominations foully dance,
Beautiful naked virgins sway
Trapped with a horrid trance.

Iscaron and Asmodeus howl
Like werewolfs baying at the moon,
Shoggoths and ghastly Night Gaunts
Shrilling, as they break the gloom.

Elephantine creatures lurking
As the devilment loudly goes on,
Ever wary of the coming daylight
By which time they'll all be gone.

But monstrous entities cavort
Soon after darkfall does descend,
Chanting shrilly through the night
Wishing darkness would never end.

A dark meeting held late at night
Where avian beings are squalling,
Goliath piscine terrors shrieking
Through the night they're calling.

Gyrating through the night-time
Monsters of every shape and size,
Squealing out forbidden words
Trying fervidly to make Satan rise.

As the death of innocence arrives
A deafening blast from underground,
And terror once more walks the Earth,
Loping swiftly toward the town.

And from the broken forest
There stands a hole gaping wide,
Which releases myriad behemoths
Escaping into the savage night.

THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme Axbx cxxx xdxd xxbx cxax xeae Accc xfxf xxxx xxxa exx
Poetic Form
Metre 01101111 1110111 100101 01101001 01011100 111101010 1100101 1001010 010110 111 10010101 110101 100101 1110101 101011 111101 011010 1011011 101010101 1111111 11010001 1101101 101101 10101101 01101111 11001011 01011010 101110 101011 101100101 1011001 10111101 101110001 01001110 01011101 1100101 0101010 1101101 1010100010 010010101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,379
Words 246
Sentences 11
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 20

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A dark meeting held late at night Where all manner of fiends meet, Out in the lonesome hilltops Concealed from the bustling streets.

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Written on February 21, 2022

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on March 06, 2022

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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