Analysis of Roaring of The Light
Roaring, screeching, wailing horror
Darkness raging, maddened roarer
Rising, burning, flashing wrath
Screaming void and lightning flash
Down went hammer, muddy mire
Doom is forged in bloody fire
Accursed sword is forged at last
By hammer swung in heavy blast
Chaos, chaos, trembling, trembling
Spirits, monsters, now assembling
Elder gods from lair and den
Take the form of twisted men
The void has screamed, the void has howled
Empty lands where demons prowled
Empty now for all have gathered
Monsters come and peace is shattered
Above the heavens darkness reigns
Or so it seems, all bound with chains
A storm of spirits, evil comes
Heralded by the foul drums
Chanting, rising voices screech
To drown the words the wise men preach
To drown the wild screams of the stricken
The foul drums begin to quicken
Golden meadows, silent streams
A broken people turn to dreams
A remnant of the light once in
The foul world now charred with sin
Flower fields and misty seas
A trembling people on their knees
Remember now the sacred things
The trembling broken voices sing
A bloody sickly conquered throng
Voices raised in sorrowed song
Rise above sick revelry
Of demons and their devilry
A song upon the wind is heard
Carried far above the birds
A message sent with holy breath
A song of beauty, noble death!
The land now hangs, in the balance
Lifeless are the demons talons
The voices, strong! Holy! Humble
The song of hope begins to rumble
Across the land the spell is broken!
For by the song the lords have woken
The fairy princes in shining mail!
Cast the spirits back to Sheol
Once forgotten, that song of light
A song once sung into the night
A dream so filled with breath of magic
A dream rekindled by death so tragic
For those last remnants had the grace
To see black death, face to face
They saw it there and sang beside it
They saw it smile… and they defied it
A song once sung beneath the depths
Now sung through street and cobbled steps
A night of death never forgotten
When hope most holy was begotten.
Scheme | AAXX XABB CCDD XBEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLXC MMXA EXNN XXOO IIXO PPQQ RRSS XXIK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 10101010 101011 1010101 1010101 1110101 11101010 111111 11010101 1010100100 101010100 1011101 1011101 01110111 1011101 10111110 10101110 01010101 11111111 01110101 1001011 1010101 11010111 110111010 01101110 101101 01010111 01010110 0111111 1010101 010010111 01010101 010010101 01010101 101011 1011100 110011 01010111 1010101 01011101 01110101 01110010 10101010 01011010 011101110 010101110 110101110 010100101 1010111 10101111 01110101 011111110 0101011110 11110101 1111111 111101011 111101011 01110101 11110101 011110010 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,021 |
Words | 375 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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A poem telling the tale of maddening evil, brokenness, and a song of hope.
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