Analysis of Monsters
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Our greatest fears arise
From the darkness of our soul,
The wickedness within us
That we can't restrain.
We see monsters in the night
But it's our own kind
Whose deeds give us horror
Their madness and crimes.
We proclaim to be civilized
But our actions speak differently.
The beasts in the wilderness
Are gentle, compared to our disguise.
Our hearts are full of greed.
Our hands stained with blood.
We destroy what we don't require,
And leave the earth in ruins
The fear we feel is real.
The monsters are within.
It's time to face the truth
Of what lies beneath our disposition.
As long as we deny
Our savage nature inside,
Our greatest fears will arise,
And we'll have nowhere to hunker down.
Scheme | AXBX XXCX XXBA XXCX XXXX XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10101101 0100011 11101 1110001 111011 111110 11001 1011110 110101100 0100100 1100111001 1011111 101111 10111110 0101010 011111 010101 111101 1110110010 111101 10101001 10101101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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