Analysis of A BEAUTIFUL DEMON
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Beautiful demon
Sensual like a woman,
Eager soon to feed.
Attractive woman
Revealing herself a fiend,
In human disguise.
A beautiful fiend
Sensual but so lethal,
Readying to kill.
Men will gladly die
For this beautiful temptress,
Modern femme fatale.
A large snake coiling
Changes to a woman:
Beautiful but deadly.
Woman-shaped demon
Leading a man to a mount,
Killing him on high.
Daughter of Satan
She’s the devil’s child (your bride!);
A woman from hell.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AAX ABX BCX DXC XAX AXD AXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1001010 10111 01010 0100101 01001 01001 1001110 10011 11101 1110010 1011 0111 101010 100110 10110 1001101 10111 10110 1010111 01011 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 514 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Poem about a monster that can resemble a beautiful woman, to lure men to their deaths.
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