THE DARK AND LONELY NIGHT



In the dark and lonely night
Love is lost, as lovers fight,
Nothing dares to make a sound
Terror crawls across the ground;
Horrors from a long-forgotten time
Anxiety, pain, and bloodshed climb.
Dreadful things are done and said
By the loping, slinking, evil dead,
Love and warmth are both lost
To death and horror: holocaust;
The dead and lonely keep marching on
To the doleful sounds of the death march song.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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In the dark and lonely night Love is lost, as lovers fight,

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Written on 1988

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDDEEXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 467
Words 82
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 3

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