Analysis of AROUND A BLOOD-STAINED ALTAR
Abominations are prancing
Around a blood-stained altar,
A fallen priest chants evil words
Without daring to ever falter.
Atrocities keep on twirling
Performing a doom-cursed dance,
Around the blood-stained altar,
As though in some demonic trance.
Witches, goblins, warlocks
All are dancing to the Devil's tune,
Swirling around like dervishes
Beneath a blood-soaked moon.
Prehistoric monsters shriek
As they start racing forward,
Shrilling to the cavorting crowd
Upon this night most torrid.
Imps, and gremlins, Wendigos
Cavort around a magic circle,
Claws and fangs all razor-sharp
And tails so hetroceracal.
Manticores and Babadooks
Joining in a monstrous chanting,
As around the blood-stained altar
Hobgoblins and elves start ranting.
Beneath the sneering moon above
Barbarities keep circling round,
Around a blood-stained altar
Just outside the nearest town.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | aBcb adbd cece xxxx cfxf caba xxBx xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 0101110 01011101 011011010 01001110 0100111 0101110 11010101 10101 111010101 100111 010111 010101 1111010 1100101 0111110 10101 010101010 1011101 0111 101 10001010 10101110 101110 01010101 111001 0101110 1110101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Abominations are prancing Around a blood-stained altar,
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Written on August 01, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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