Analysis of THE SEEKER (I)
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
The seeker’s searching for live prey
Victims to surely bring right down,
He creeps along the dim-lit streets
Within this woeful, nasty town.
The inhuman seeker is looking for
Some unsuspecting prey to kill,
Creeping through dark alleyways
Climbing through a window sill.
The seeker stalks the dreary night
Looking for those without a care,
To bring down in the twilight time
Then add them to his bill-o’-fare.
He hunts the night by smell of blood
Seeking out an injured soul,
To leave their body chalky white
Their flesh a lifeless cold.
The seeker’s needing victims
So he can hunt and kill,
To give this fiend his nourishment
And give him such a thrill.
He thrills to kill the innocent
To know they cannot be saved,
He thrills to see their coffins
Being lowered into their graves.
A creature from some twilight world
The seeker rides out again,
He lives to feast upon the living
He lives for inflicting pain.
The evil seeker haunts the night
In a smallish country town,
Seeking out night-time walkers
To grab and cruelly bring them down.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDXD XXCX XBEB EXXX XXXX CAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111 10110111 11010111 01110101 0010101101 1010111 101110 1010101 01010101 10110101 1110011 11111111 11011111 1011101 1111011 110101 0101010 111101 11111100 011101 11110100 1111011 1111110 10100111 0101111 0101101 111101010 1110101 01010101 0010101 1011110 11010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,083 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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