Analysis of THE LAND OF THE DEAD (II)
In the land of the dead
Loathsome horrors do abound,
Creepers, predators, hippogriffs
Soaring above the ground.
Swooping down on travellers
Attacking innocent passersby,
Scratching, clawing, pecking
The guiltless as they die.
Blue Men, Green Men, evil imps
All torment the chaste and good,
Harvesters wielding scythes
Draped in black coats and hoods.
Foul beasts of so many kinds
Dwell within the land of the dead,
All sorts of nameless abominations
Villeins, and knights without heads.
Poltergeists and doppelgangers
Phantoms, werewolfs, manticores,
Tormenting, killing human beings
Or devouring living people raw.
Horrors in burial grounds
Reaching out for the living,
Zombies, ghouls, vampires
All completely unforgiving:
Unforgiving of live people
Who put them underground,
Concreting them in ancient crypts
Within this awful town.
In the land of the dead
No hope is left in sight,
No-one living survives for long
In this land of constant night.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Abcb cxdx cxcc cacc cccx cdcd xbcx Aexe xcx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
| Metre | 001101 1010101 11001 100101 1011100 010100100 101010 010111 1111101 110101 100101 101101 1111101 10101101 111101 101011 1001 1011 10101010 1010010101 1001001 1011010 10110 10100010 00101110 11110 110101 011101 001101 111101 11100111 0111101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 987 |
| Words | 156 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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In the land of the dead Loathsome horrors do abound, Creepers, predators, hippogriffs Soaring above the ground.
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Written on August 01, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 07, 2021
Modified on April 18, 2023
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