Analysis of Fear the night
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Fear the horror of the night
Fear the darkness lurking round you,
Fear the shadows creeping closer
Unnamed terrors have surely found you.
In the dark and steamy night
Evil swirling round your face,
Visions? Nightmares? Creatures?
Beings not of the human race.
Fear the mist swirling nearby
Leviathans are lumbering forth,
Dark shadows forcing warriors
To cruelly die to prove their worth.
Unseen beings shrilly shrieking
In a dark and horrid night,
Winged monsters search dark alleyways
Then seeing movement take to flight.
Fearsome shapes lingering near
Hidden from their intended prey,
Hunting human food at night
Slinking off at break of day.
Unspeakable terrors lurking near
Stalking folks who go out late,
Followed by malignant fiends
Unaware of their impending fate.
Smitten lovers walk hand in hand
Unwary of crouching carnivores,
Creeping after bedazzled lovers
Soon to die in death's foul jaws.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB ACDC XXDX XAXA EFAF EGXG XXDX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10101011 1011010 011011011 0010101 1010111 10110 10110101 1011011 111001 1110100 11011111 0110110 0010101 1101110 11010111 1011001 10110101 1010111 111111 010010101 1011111 1010101 01110101 10101101 01011010 1010110 1110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 947 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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