Analysis of OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF GRAVES
Down in sunken crypts
Ghoulish creatures stir,
Concrete graves crack open
Bony arms push through the earth.
Out of long-forgotten graves
Skeletal creatures climb,
Rotten flesh hanging from bones
Puss oozing from withered limbs.
Up cracked concrete stairs
Horrid visions crawl,
Out toward the upper world
Up from their sunken hall.
Up among the gravestones
Ghoulish fiends now feed,
Upon the bones of other dead
For nourishment they need.
A dry crunching of bones
Fills the dark night air,
As from a nearby gravesite
Late mourners turn and stare:
Staring at ghastly visions
The mourners turn and flee,
Never looking backward
For fear of what they’ll see.
Mewling like a dying kitten
Fills this mournful place,
As ghoulish creatures feast
On remnants of the human race.
Night monsters feeding
Within this necropolis,
Feeding on rancid entrails
Mewling in utter bliss.
Then as the dawn does break
Back towards the grave they head,
Down to the crypt they crawl
Back to the land of the dead.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XXAX XXBX XCXC BDED BFXF XGXG AHXH XXXX XECE XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 10101 011110 1011101 1110101 100101 1011011 1101101 11011 10101 1010101 111101 10101 10111 01011101 110011 011011 10111 110111 110101 1011010 010101 101010 111111 1101010 11101 110101 11010101 11010 0110100 1011010 10101 110111 1010111 110111 1101101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Horror poem about ghoulish creatures haunting a graveyard at night.
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Written on June 07, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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