Analysis of Black pearl, eye of raven
Rooftop gargoyle
Stone and statue stiff
Black pearl, eye of the raven
Watching on high, from where he sits
A dark sentinel against the moonlight
His gaze upon me never quits
At the dawn he has gone
But at twilight the corvid calls
CAW! CAW!
To warn the world
The harbinger, my confessor
Of the misdeeds I refuse to admit
Each night a shadow of my lost conscious
My superficial walls from me he does strip
One by one the eyes upon begin to stare
Til madness fills me
And not another hour of darkness can I bare
I bleed my heart open to the authority
And the black demon laughs and laughs
And flaps his wings
To seek the next of his victims
Hooded villians roaming free
Preying pleasurably upon the weak
Messenger of black summoned through affiction
Brings them to their knees
Thus, the burden of sins upon their backs
Is his calling card to leave
Scheme | ABCDEDFGHIJKLMJNJNOPQJRCSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1011 1111010 10111111 011000101 11011101 101111 111011 11 1101 010011 1001101101 110111110 1010111111 11101010111 11011 0101010110111 111110100100 00110101 0111 11011110 101101 1010101 100111011 11111 1010110111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 682 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 158 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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