Analysis of SEED PEOPLE
Seed people are flowering
Within a doom-cursed forest,
Where only nightmares live
And nothing worthwhile rests.
Growing like spreading bushes
Seed people reach to the sky,
Hoping to feed on the birdlife
As innocent avians fly by.
With faces vaguely humanoid
Trunks that are tall and wooden,
They wait for unsuspecting life
To stumble through their dens.
Shallow roots upon woody feet
So, from time to time they walk,
Slinking up toward man or beast
Through the forest they stalk.
Grown from seeds they're born
To vaguely resemble human beings,
But they're nightmare creatures
Devious, blood-thirsty things.
Seed people are flowering
On the banks of Blood Bayou,
Where only naive people
Even have the bravado to go.
Wrapping leafy tentacles
Around unsuspicious prey,
They sup upon vital fluids
To suck their very life away.
Only fire or axes scare them
And drive them slinking away,
Hunting for humans every night
Then hiding again each day.
THE END
© Copyright 2023 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxx xcdc bxdx xexe xfxf Axxx xgxg xgxg xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101100 0101110 11011 010111 1011010 1101101 1011101 1100111 110101 1111010 1110101 110111 10101101 1111111 1101111 101011 11111 1100101010 11110 1001101 1101100 1011110 110110 101001011 1010100 0111 11011010 11110101 101011011 011101 101101001 1100111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 190 |
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) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Seed people are flowering Within a doom-cursed forest, Where only nightmares live And nothing worthwhile rests.
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