Analysis of THE POSTMAN
The Postman's horrid letter
Has just arrived today,
A "Sorry For Your Loss Card"
Made out in your name.
The Postman's sack of horror
Holds terror for boys and girls,
Not a single epistle of joy
Does he deliver around the world.
The Postman's burlap sack
Contains all kinds of disease,
He smiling delivers them
Killing innocents with such ease.
His evil bag of terror
Contains bombs, rifles, handguns,
A massacre will soon ensue
Long before the Postman's done.
He's spreading around horror
To everyone that he can,
The astute learn to hide indoors
At the knock of the evil Postman.
No letters of hope
Does he ever bring round,
He likes to spread fear and death
Around this lonesome town.
Goodwill to man is not his way
Death and despair are his themes,
And when he delivers mail to you
That's all that there will ever be.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | ABXX AXXX XCXC AXDE AXXE XXXX BXDX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011010 110101 0101111 11011 011110 1101101 101001011 110100101 0111 0111101 1100101 10100111 1101110 011101 01001101 101011 1100110 110111 0011111 101101010 11011 111011 1111101 011101 11111111 1001111 011010111 11111101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 874 |
| Words | 159 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The Postman's horrid letter Has just arrived today, A "Sorry For Your Loss Card" Made out in your name.
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Written on July 05, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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