Analysis of GIBBERING

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Gibbering resounds at night
Around a village lost to terror,
Rabid apes and unknown primates
And other biological errors.

Outdoors gibbering primates lurk
Indoors people cower together,
Hoping one day to escape from
This place they've been forever.

Squealing and loud screeching
Fills the midnight atmosphere,
Sounds of lumbering footsteps
In this village lost to fear.

Trumpeting and loud roaring
Fills the evil twilight sky,
While just above the rooftops
Feathered abominations fly.

Gibbering resounds at night
Around this dreadful town,
Winged reptiles soar overhead
Burrowers move underground.

In the pitch-black town
Malignant beings crawl,
As through the dire darkness
Mutant creatures squall.

Shrilling fills the air
As leviathans reach a'high,
Battering roofs and chimneys
To get at people locked inside.

Gibbering resounds at night
In a village that's almost dead,
People hope just for another day
To escape this night of dread.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme Abxx xbxb cdxd cexe Afgx fhxh xexx Agxg xxx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111 010101110 1010011 010010010 11111 11010010 10111011 1111010 100110 10110 111001 0110111 1000110 101011 110101 1011 1111 011101 1101101 100110 00111 010101 110110 10101 1101 11101 1001010 11110101 1111 0010111 101110101 1011111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 975
Words 153
Sentences 9
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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Gibbering resounds at night Around a village lost to terror,

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Written on September 08, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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