Analysis of OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Out of the darkness comes a creature
From some misbegotten time,
Crawling, slinking, creeping
From some foul primordial slime.
Lurking in dark alleyways
Hoping soon for passers-by,
The unsuspecting walk the lane
And from the dark a hellish cry.
A cry to chill the very marrow
Of the bones of any human being,
Out of the darkness comes a fiend
The like of which you’ve never seen.
Nightmare creatures come to life
As darkness takes command,
And terror from some twilight world
Stalks across the darkened land.
A horror from some far-off realm
Of a madman’s worst nightmare,
Leathery flippers, scaly wings
Squid-like beaks that gnash and tear.
Locked indoors the human beings
Cringe and cower till daylight,
Lest they peer through the curtains
And may die of craven fright.
Nothing living dares to move
And crying fills the midnight sky,
Loathsome creatures prowl the dark
And innocents will cruelly die.
Midnight is a time of weeping
In this town that’s lost to fear,
Through the night a hopping, slithering
As unnameable creatures near.
Windows rattled, doors are shaken
By some unseen passing beast,
Shrilling fills the midnight sky
At last, the creature gets to feast.
A wayward worker lost to time
Too late to safely reach his home,
Obscene slurping fills the night
Malignant creatures crunch wet bones.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABA XCXC XBXX XDXD XEFE FGXG XCXC BHBH XICI AXGX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 110101 10110 11101001 100110 1011101 0010101 01010101 011101010 1011101010 11010101 01111101 110111 110101 0101111 1010101 01011111 10111 1001011 1111101 1101010 101011 1111010 0111101 1010111 0101011 1010101 01001101 1101110 0111111 101010100 11101 10101110 1101101 11011 11010111 01010111 11110111 011101 01010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,342 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Out of the darkness comes a creature From some misbegotten time, Crawling, slinking, creeping From some foul primordial slime.
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Written on May 25, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 11, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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