THE SIEGE (Breach the Castle Walls)
Cold wind swept northern black waters
Twilight fog unto dim
Massive silent ships dock at harbor
Unloading steeds in armor
Thirty thousand Norwegian and Danish Vikings
In mass we move up in
Our captains advancing forward into the frigid blackening night
She is thus the only ally
Exceptions to thickened ghost skins of animal hides
Brandishing white knuckle swords we dare
We can already smell death of enemies that are seemingly so close
There is nothing that we warriors will ever fear
Moods are somber; hearts in chest now begin to grow in size
As the towering fortress of the hated foe
A silhouette in blackness through the mist doth rise
Hoping beyond a measure of nexus to well laid traps
Be unto element of the surprise
As a Norse and Dane grinning ear to ear, waiting behind our toothless gaps
Parched lips a drool run over fond thoughts of valor
Ready to the first round of weaponry
As scarlet arrows flaming, arch whizzing through the stillness to shatter
Vociferous bellows aloud of war beget into charging
As colossal, ripping arms are heaving,cross one hand then another
To catapults a ready, mammoth stones sent true hurling unto flying
Impact then a crashing!! Gates of timbers cracking into splitting
Exposes the raging blazes amid
Of infernos from invading arrows landing
To the thrusting would be victims one by one bulging eyes of red duly over glaze
The brunt! The breach!
With war hammer, axe and battle mace
The sweetness of victory are the tears of blood we taste
Attack the heart, victors within, the castle walls we have reached
The Siege to spoils, a smorgasbord of feasts, feeds the hunger of the men
The raging Nordic beasts!
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAAXX XXX XXX BXB CBC AXA DAD DXD XXXX XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,619 |
Words | 287 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3 |
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