Analysis of FLAPPING
Flapping fills the darkness
Mere metres overhead,
The wily soon are running
The guileless soon are dead.
Avians swooping down
As innocents are strolling by,
Unaware that death is near
Sailing through the evil sky.
Feathered fiends following
Metres above their prey,
Night vision so keenly
Reveal them clear as day.
Wing-beats fill the air
Upon this repugnant night,
The unlucky are pecked apart
The lucky just die of fright.
Flapping fills the darkness
In the neighbourhood park,
Lovers walking hand-in-hand
Strolling naively in the dark.
Watching from ahigh
Wing terror is following,
Until it decides to swoop
Dying lovers are hollering.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb xdxd cexe xfxf Agxg xcxc xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 110101 0101110 010111 1101 11001101 011111 1010101 101100 100111 110110 011111 11101 0110101 00101101 0101111 101010 0011 1010101 10010001 1011 1101100 011111 10101100 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Flapping fills the darkness Mere metres overhead, The wily soon are running The guileless soon are dead.
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Written on November 13, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on November 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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