Analysis of Wizard of Darkness

Ray Crider 1965 (Shawnee ok.)



Beware my friends my Name is the wizard.
Also known as the great white blizzard.
When I 1st lived nobody knew.
When the law found out I was already through.
I entered the business without a thought.
Of what would happen if I was caught.
My little white gains were nothing but waste .
So soft so deadly so bitter with taste
I can make a schoolboy forget his books
And cause a woman to forget her looks
I can Make a good Husband Is cast out his wife
And send a greedy pusher to prison for life.
I'm the wizard of crime and the Prince of corruption
I'll Capture your soul and cause it's destruction
I'm not just a wizard I got to behold
More precious than diamonds More treasure than gold
So if you wish to hear more of the things I Can do
Of the women I delighted
And the men that I slewed
I'll make a man shall be that once dressed nice
And send A Greedy Pusher to prison for life
I'll pick you up and put you under my wing
You dare to define me I who am king .
You toss and you turn but still you can't Sleep
You wake in the morning all trembling and weak
You search through the night for simply a sparkle
But you will never find it for I am
THE WIZARD OF DARKNESS .


Scheme aabbcdeeffgGhhiibjakGllmnopq
Poetic Form
Metre 0111111010 101101110 111111 10111110101 1100100101 111101111 1101101011 1111011011 111010111 0101010101 111011011111 010101011011 1010110011010 11011011010 11101011101 11011011011 1111111101111 10101010 001111 1101111111 010101011011 11110111011 1110111111 1101111111 110010110001 11101110010 1111011111 010110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,166
Words 244
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 912
Words per stanza (avg) 238

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A poem about the Evil in my life ...

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Written on October 02, 1996

Submitted by sprc5150 on December 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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