Analysis of THE GRAVEDIGGER
The Gravedigger buries
Both the living and the dead,
In unmarked graves.
Every night he digs
Another grave to fill,
With any fresh corpse.
When he finds no corpses
He hunts down the living.
To create newly dead.
Uninterred bodies
Are quickly buried deep,
Along with living folk.
No sooner is one grave
Filled to his delight,
Than another is dug.
Never satisfied
He must keep digging graves;
And must keep filling them.
He haunts the dark night
Looking for fresh road-kill,
New hit-and-run victims.
Or victims of drowning
Decomposing bloated corpses,
Washed to shore.
Or lovelorn suicides
Hanging in dark attics,
In homes or at work.
When he finds nothing
No corpses to inter,
He gladly makes his own.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABC XDX EFB AXX XGX XCX GDX FEX XXX FXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110 1010001 0011 100111 010111 11011 111110 111010 101101 110 110101 011101 110111 11101 101011 1010 111101 011101 11011 101111 110110 110110 0101010 111 1110 100110 01111 11110 110101 110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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The Gravedigger buries Both the living and the dead, In unmarked graves.
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Written on June 25, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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