Analysis of Halloween
Lindsay G H Hall 1954 (Oxford)
Flaunting idle, evanescent charms
Banshees prowl, befoul, besmirch
And stalk the streets of sense
With ghastly howl, screeching lust
For blood or ale, cheap thrills or vain
Tricks and treats; and, having wailed
Their hymns to infernal deities
And spent their foolish, wasted moments
Of concupiscence, harlotry or plain
Nescience, stagger, stupefied, to bed.
They party, then die, in shallow shade
Cast by the luminous fire
Of commemorated saints
On this, All Hallows’, Eve.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHEIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100101 1111 010111 1101101 11111111 1010101 111010100 011101010 11111 110111 110110101 11010010 101001 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 381 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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