Analysis of ULULATION
A wall of sound approaching
From some distant place,
Evil non-human creatures?
Or members of the human race?
Ululation through the night
Like the awful buzz of death,
Making listeners stand and stare
Afraid to release a single breath.
Far away entities are screaming
Or possibly they are crying?
Is there a riot now going on?
Are innocents far off dying?
Unrelenting murmuring comes
Like the sounds of a night stream,
Hustling, bustling outside sight
A mirage? Or psychedelic dream?
Obscure sounds reverberate
Through the evil twilight sky,
Merrymakers in joyous revel?
Or the guileless about to die?
Ululation through the night
A wall of sound approaching,
Upon your waking, daytime life
Are lucid dreams encroaching?
Distant sounds are swaying
Like some colossal palm tree,
Filling your ears like tinnitus
Like swarming of angry bees.
Sound bytes from everywhere
Imploding within your ears,
Bringing up waking nightmares
Filling your days with fears.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxb Cded aaxa xfcf xgxg CAxa axbx ehxh xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010 11101 1011010 11010101 1101 1010111 10100101 011010101 101100110 11001110 110101101 11001110 0101001 1011011 100100111 00110101 0110100 101011 101010 10100111 1101 0111010 0111011 1101010 101110 1101011 101111 1101101 11110 0100111 101101 101111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,033 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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A wall of sound approaching From some distant place, Evil non-human creatures? Or members of the human race?
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Written on March 25, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on April 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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