Analysis of THE ICEMAN
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Ice-breathing demons
Calling down a frozen Hell;
Freeze you to your soul.
Demons of the ice
Living within snow and sleet,
Chill you to the bone.
The Iceman passed through
Turning deserts to rivers,
The living to ice.
Oceans become ice
Deserts become oceans as,
The Ice Man appears.
he Iceman Cometh
Making ice statues from,
Living human beings.
The Ice Man is here
Freezing up desert regions,
Sending winter storms.
Turning people to ice
Turning deserts to oceans,
The Iceman's here.
Beautiful statues
Once live bathing beauties till,
The Iceman passed by.
Freezing people to death,
The Iceman slaughters,
Everything he detects.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AXX BXX XCB BXX XXX DAX BAD XXX XCX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 11010 1010101 11111 10101 1001101 11101 01011 1010110 01011 10011 1001101 01101 11010 10111 101010 01111 1011010 10101 101011 1010110 011 1001 1110101 01011 101011 01010 10101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 679 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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