Analysis of The beast beneath
Madness…
Characters, actors…
In my mind doth play
Presence, until the curtain call
Unknown, then afraid!
Seek to quell the voices
Run amok and askew
In depths, directors scream “action”
Then, they take their cue!
Next, Frantic desperation, panic!
The fray to change their will
Only thing to stand between the nightmare and the darkness now
A mislaid bottle lost, accompanied by suppressing pills
Amid mirrored reflections on the wall
The evil grins begins to grow
Cool breezes of the rotting stenches
From cities dark alleys upon my skins bestow
Into the night, lusting for fleshly desires
Gaslight lamps of familiarity ambers glow
Amongst victims in the mist of crusted, dirty streets of ire
Eclipsing, remnants of sanity left to passions throes!
Scheme | ABXCX XDXD XXXX CEAE BEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 10010 01111 10010101 01101 111010 101001 01010110 11111 11001010 011111 10111010100101 001101010010101 0110010101 01010111 11010101 110110011101 01011011010 10110100101 011000111010111 01010110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 735 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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