Analysis of Let sleeping dragons lie
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
In ancient forts
Sleeping dragons lie in wait,
For unwary callers.
Archaeologists
Digging deep in ancient forts;
Stumble upon death.
A sleeping dragon
Awakened by the digging,
Rears up to attack.
Men and women scream
Horror come to life again,
After sleeping aeons.
Terrified they flee
Hoping to outrun the death,
Baring down on them.
A dragon breaths fire
Charring the fleeing people,
Into human toast.
Nine people now dead
Ten others still fleeing death,
Just metres behind.
Trespassers fleeing
As fiery death whooshes out,
Killing one by one.
Twelve dead then fifteen
The last few on the brink now,
Of lethal collapse.
A woken dragon
Chases down trespassers,
Till slowly turning:
Beneath ancient forts
Sleeping dragons lie again;
Guarding ancient lore.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AXX XAB CDX XEA XBX XXX XBX DXC XXX CAD AEX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 1010101 101010 0100 1010101 10011 01010 0101010 11101 10101 1011101 10101 1011 1010101 10111 010110 1001010 01101 11011 1101101 11001 110 1100111 10111 11101 0111011 11001 01010 1011 11010 01101 1010101 10101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 793 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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