Analysis of CRIES OF AGONY
Cries of agony
Ringing out one evil night,
Shrieks of great despair
Unbearable atrocities,
Performed on kidnap victims.
Evil in the night
Horror on the midnight air,
Unearthly figures
Flitting through the evil night,
Hunting shrilling, pleading prey.
Insane musician
Playing his wet music on,
Human intestines;
A knife-blade his only bow
To play screaming instruments.
Cries of great distress
Resound in the gloomy night,
Shrill shrieks of horror
As some unknown victim feels,
The chill grip of sudden death.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABXX ABXAX XXXXX XAXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100 1011101 11101 01000100 011110 10001 101011 01010 1010101 101101 01010 1011101 10010 0111101 1110100 11101 100101 11110 1101101 0111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Cries of agony Ringing out one evil night, Shrieks of great despair Unbearable atrocities
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Written on March 03, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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