Analysis of Dark poet



In the footsteps of a murderer
I followed him till here,
The road so far was dusty
With a thunderstorm of fear.

He leaves a trail of blood behind
Revenge is on his heels,
Guilt but haunts his sleepless dreams
A murderer that kills.

I see him far ahead of me
He holds an open knife,
That grows out of his fingered fist
To take a living life.

I see him pull it back to strike
Innocent blood to spill,
A poison fang, a venom claw
To tear the midnight still.

Then suddenly I blink my eyes
I see my moving hand,
It holds a dagger in the air
To strike at my demand.

And looking back I realise
That the murderer is me,
While writing and creating
Spilling blood in fantasy.

Dark poet writing murder
Though imagining’s not real,
It is my hand that spills the blood
My pen that makes the kill.


Scheme AXBX XCXX BDXD XEXE XFXF CBXB AXXE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (43%)
Metre 00110100 110111 0111110 101011 11011101 011111 1111101 010011 11110111 111101 11111101 110101 11111111 100111 01010101 11011 11001111 111101 11010001 111101 010111 1010011 1100010 1010100 1101010 1111 11111101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 758
Words 154
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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