Analysis of THE HUNTSMAN
The Huntsman carries a two-headed axe
As he stalks through the darkened forest,
Hunting for a very special creature
Hoping to send it to eternal rest.
He hunts big game of all descriptions
But his favourite quarry is human,
He loves to chase them through the woods
His battleaxe swinging at his command.
Once he catches up and kills them
He beheads them with one swing of his axe,
Leaving the headless corpse behind
He only needs to take the severed head back.
Back to his death-riddled wooden cabin
Where he mounts his trophy on the wall,
A bloody monument to his evil
A treasure of the latest victim to fall.
In the forest not far from his cabin
Lies the bodies of all the dead,
Some now reduced to skeletons
Since all he ever needs is the head.
The Huntsman has no concept of morals
No human sense of right and wrong,
He hunts and kills just for pleasure
And will keep stalking all night long.
By day he chops up wood for burning
Or hunts down wood creatures to eat,
But in the night he hunts his own species
Killing every stranger that he meets.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AXBX CDXX XAXX DEXE DFCF XGBG XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101001101 111101010 1010101010 1011110101 111111010 11110110 11111101 11101101 11101011 111111111 10010101 11011101011 1111101010 111110101 0101001110 01010101011 0010111110 10101101 11011100 111101101 0101110110 11011101 11011110 01110111 111111110 11111011 1001111110 1010010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,091 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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The Huntsman carries a two-headed axe As he stalks through the darkened forest, Hunting for a very special creature Hoping to send it to eternal rest.
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Written on August 06, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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