Analysis of Horror Poetry Set #018
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
THE BLUE MAN ENTERS (21/05/2021)
Hunting lone swimmers
The Blue Man enters them,
Taking another victim.
THE BLUE MAN STALKING (21/05/2021)
The Blue Man stalking
Lone unwary swimmers,
Taking them to their deaths.
THE BLUE MAN WAILING (21/05/2021)
The Blue Man Wailing
Like an injured porpoise,
Luring lonely swimmers.
THE DARKLING SPREADING (21/05/2021)
The darkling spreading
Fear and chaos worldwide,
Feeding his evil thirst.
THE GREEN MAN HIDING (21/05/2021)
Weed-poison kills him
If only you can track him down,
Hidden in plain sight.
THE GREEN MAN REELING (21/05/2021)
Twirling vines reach out
Ensnare the unexpecting,
Slowly reeling in.
THE GREEN MAN RUSTLING (21/05/2021)
Rustling through ivy
Upon an ancient building,
Lost from people's sight. .
THE GREEN MAN UNSEEN (21/05/2021)
Roiling like the sea
The Green Man is rarely seen,
Except when he strike.
THE GREEN MERMAID (22/05/2021)
Within a glass tank
A beautiful green maiden,
Breathing in water?
THE GREEN MERMAID ON DISPLAY (22/05/2021)
A rural inn houses
What seems to be a mermaid,
Put there on display.
THE GREEN MERMAID FEEDING (22/05/2021)
People can vanish
Sometimes in a twinkling
Does the mermaid feed?
THE GREEN MERMAID HORROR (22/05/2021)
Ignoring the danger
Some fools lift the lid to stare,
At the horror there.
THE ICE MAN IS HERE (21/05/2021)
The Ice Man is here
Freezing up desert regions,
Sending winter storms.
INFERNO LOVES HIS WORK (21/05/21)
Inferno melts building
Killing all within them,
Yes, he loves his work.
THE LILYWHITE BOYS PLEASED (21/05/2021)
Drawing pleasure from
Terror. The Lilywhite Boys
Let the concrete set.
LILYWHITE BOYS SMIRK (21/05/2021)
Screaming as they sink
People drowning in concrete,
Lilywhite Boys smirk.
THE LILYWHITE BOYS TURN (21/05/2021)
Mortar turns to water
Making people sink fast,
As though in quicksand.
THE LILYWHITE BOYS SMILE (21/05/2021)
Turned half into stone
People die screaming as the,
Lilywhite Boys smile.
THE LILYWHITE BOYS WATCH (22/05/2021)
Down, down people go
Sinking clean out of sight as,
The Lilywhite Boys watch.
THE MAN-OF-IRON FIGHTING (21/05/2021)
Fighting strangers
Protecting his territory
An ancient building.
THE MAN-OF-IRON KILLING
Killing all builders
Trying to demolish
The place where he resides.
THE MAN-OF-IRON PROTECTING (22/05/2021)
Protecting his abode
Like some ancient fortress,
From demolition.
THE MAN-OF-IRON STALKING
Old building haunted
The Manlike thing of iron,
Stalking all who near.
THE PAINTER'S CANVASS (21/05/2021)
Horror stories come live
On the Painter's canvass,
Terrorising the Earth.
THE PAINTER'S EVIL ART (21/05/2021)
The Painter hopes to
Drive humanity crazy,
With his evil art work.
THE PAINTER'S EVIL ART (21/05/2021)
The Painter hopes to
Drive humanity crazy,
With his evil art work.
THE PAINTER'S EVIL WORKS (21/05/2021)
Fabled monsters risen
From the Painter's evil works,
Mythic creatures real.
THE PIPER'S COMING (21/05/2021)
The Piper's coming
Playing a tune of chaos.
Spreading fear around.
PIPER'S MELODY OF DEATH (21/05/2021)
The Piper playing
A melody to die for,
Many people do!
THE PIPER PLAYING (21/05/2021)
The piper playing
An enticing tune to lure,
Victims to his lair.
THE PIPER'S SONG OF DEATH (21/05/2021)
A sweet song of death
Sounding throughout the village,
Played by The Piper.
THE EVIL PUPPETEER (21/05/2021)
Evil Puppeteer
Transforming living beings,
Into life-like dolls.
THE PUPPETEER AGREES (22/05/2021)
Fatalists believe
That we're living puppets,
The Puppeteer agrees.
THE PUPPETEER AT PLAY (22/05/2021)
Making people puppets
Bringing dolls to life,
The Puppeteer at play.
TAR BABIES COME (21/05/2021)
The Tar Babies Come
From their black pits stealing
Away the living lost.
TAR BABIES LURE (21/05/2021)
Cute black babies lure
Young women to their death,
Within La Brea's dark pits.
TAR BABIES NEED TO ENTICE (21/05/2021)
Having found victims
Tar Babies need to entice,
Them to their demise.
TAR BABIES SLINK (21/05/2021)
Slinking into town
Tar Babies watch at windows,
Seeking folk to kill.
THE VERDILLAC SOARS (22/05/2021)
Across the azure skies
The Verdillac soars
Seeking out human prey.
THE VERDILLAC SPIES (22/05/2021)
Just within our sight
A black pinprick barely seen,
The Verdillac spies.
THE VERDILLAC SHRILLY SHRIEKS (22/05/2021)
Spying food below
The Verdillac shrilly shrieks,
As it swoops to kill.
THE VERDILLAC SWOOPS UPON (22/05/2021)
Excited shrilling
As the Verdillac swoops upon,
Harmless sheep this time.
THE VERDILLAC FEEDS (22/05/2021)
Crunching bones like fruit
In a beak with lethal teeth,
The Verdillac feeds.
THE WRITER DOOMING (21/05/2021)
The Writer dooming
Humanity to chaos
With his dreadful stories.
THE WRITER DOOMS (21/05/2021)
The writer writing
A lullaby of madness,
Dooming humanity.
THE WRITER PENS (21/05/2021)
The Writer pens
A tales of aliens creatures,
Come to invade the Earth.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Metre | 01110 10110 011101 1001010 01110 01110 101010 101111 01110 01110 111010 101010 0110 0110 101011 101101 01110 11011 11011111 10011 01110 10111 0101 10100 01110 10110 0111010 11101 01101 10101 0111101 01111 011 01011 0100110 10010 011101 010110 111101 11101 01110 10110 0100100 1011 01110 010010 1110111 10101 01111 01111 1011010 10101 010111 010110 101011 11111 0111 10101 10011 10011 111 10111 1010001 111 0111 101110 101011 1101 0111 11011 1011010 111 0111 11101 1011111 0111 0111010 1010 0101100 11010 0111010 10110 101010 011101 01110010 010101 111010 1010 0111010 11010 011110 10111 01010 101011 101010 101 010101 01011 1010010 111011 010101 01011 1010010 111011 010101 101010 1010101 10101 0110 0110 1001110 10101 110011 01010 0100111 10101 01010 01010 1010111 10111 01111 01111 1001010 11010 010001 10001 0101010 01111 000101 10001 111010 000101 000111 101010 10111 000111 1101 01101 111110 010101 1101 11101 110111 011111 1101101 10110 1101101 11101 1101 1011 1101110 10111 011 010101 011 101101 011 101101 0110101 011 0111 10101 0111 11111 01101 0101 101101 10111 011 10111 0011101 011 01010 01010 0100110 111010 0101 01010 010110 100100 0101 0101 01110010 110101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 4,736 |
Words | 752 |
Sentences | 50 |
Stanzas | 47 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 187 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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