Analysis of My 666 nightmare

Royston 1946 (Reading)



The Internet would not work so I could not trade.
I was unable to contact my Bank and was afraid.
Then my credit card and Pin number were rejected,
and to make matters worse my email was affected.

It felt as though "Big Brother" had been watching me
and taking away my freedom and liberty.
I was all alone and was beginning to fear
wondering if the Beast had begun to appear.

Thinking that he was up to his dastardly tricks
So I checked around for the number 666.
Was he forcing me to conform and to comply,
to abandon the truth and to follow a lie?

Was the control of the Beast about to begin,
or has it already slipped clandestinely in?
… Then a message came saying all was fine,
the problem was solved and I was back on line.

Written after a worrying incident using the internet and calling to mind Revelation 16:15-17


Scheme AAXX BBCC XXDD EEFF X
Poetic Form
Metre 01011111111 1101011110101 1110101100010 0111011011010 111111011101 010011100100 111010101011 100101101101 101111111001 111011010 111011010101 101001011001 100110101101 111010101000 1010110111 01011011111 101001001001001001011010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 821
Words 158
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by royston on May 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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