Analysis of THE MADMAN
1.
Pent-up terrors
A madman is revealing,
Show his innermost mind.
2.
Within the forest
The madman creeps, bearing
The aroma of death.
3.
Prowling late at night
Out searching for victims,
To sate insane desires.
4.
Spotting a window
(Open and showing no light!)
The madman enters.
5.
Finding a small girl
He slowly molests her, then
Leaves her there to die.
6.
In the next bedroom
He finds the girl’s mother,
And uses her also.
7.
Leaving the building
He re-enters the park,
Seeking out more victims.
8.
A little boy wanders
Within reach of the man,
Who uses him foully.
9.
Three bodies are found
And so a manhunt begins,
To find the killer.
10.
A cordon is set
Ringing the town, cutting it
From the outside world.
11.
But the cordon fails
And the madman escapes,
To haunt another town.
12.
The death count soars
He’s killed nearly a hundred,
Yet still, he is free.
13.
Perhaps one day soon
The madman will be sated,
But if not, what then?
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCXAXCXADEBAFDBAGHXAXIFACXEABXGAXXIAXXXAXXXAXXXAXXH XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 1 1110 011010 11101 1 01010 01110 001011 1 10111 110110 1101010 1 10010 1001011 0110 1 10011 1100101 10111 1 0011 110110 010010 1 10010 111001 101110 1 010110 011101 11011 1 11011 010101 11010 1 01011 1001101 10111 1 10101 00101 110101 1 0111 1110010 11111 1 01111 011110 11111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 961 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 52, 3 |
Lines Amount | 55 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
About this poem
Pent-up terrors A madman is revealing, Show his innermost mind.
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Written on 1999
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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