Analysis of HIVES



Within a loathsome forest
Where nothing good survives,
Horrid buzzing resounds
From a dozen monstrous hives.

Colossal bees emerging from
The hives to swarm at prey,
Stinging, stabbing, killing
Everything that's in their way.

Black and yellow horrors
Which blot out the azure sky,
Hunting through the alleyways
For innocents about to die.

Furious wingbeats overhead
As apian monsters draw near,
A buzzing fills the dire night sky
As people run away in fear.

Swooping down upon victims
Bombinating through the night,
As droning fills the atmosphere
Not long after the first twilight.

Reptile-like susurration starts
Kilometres from the town,
Rapidly becomes angry whirring
As Apian fiends soon abound.

Zizzing is fast approaching
From an abhorrent forest,
When sleeping horrors awaken
To attack a town at rest.

Aggressive humming echoing
From distant colossal hives,
Death and destruction rain down
Until nothing is left alive.

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


Scheme ABBB XCDC XEXE XFEF XGFG XHDX DAXX DBHX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010 110101 10101 1010101 01010101 011111 101010 101011 101010 1110101 101010 11000111 1001101 111011 01010111 11010101 1010110 1101 1101010 1110011 10111 10101 100011010 111101 111010 1101010 11010010 1010111 01010100 1100101 1001011 01101101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,007
Words 179
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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Within a loathsome forest Where nothing good survives, Horrid buzzing resounds From a dozen monstrous hives.

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Written on April 02, 2022

Submitted by philip0157 on April 12, 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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