Analysis of FROM BEYOND THE VOID



From beyond the void of space
Insectile abominations fly,
From out of space, out of time
Reaching Earth in the dead of night.

Screeching like a banshee chorus
They dive down to cause mayhem,
A tidal warm of monstrous fiends
Which humanity just cannot stem.

Swooping down on fleeing people
To carry them up into the sky,
Then dropping them screaming down
Delighting as each person dies.

Hunting, stalking, quickly feeding
Upon men and women that they catch,
Impregnating human females
With horrid larvae soon to hatch.

Killing people with lethal stingers
That shoot up along their backs,
Like some kind of giant scorpions
Pincers reared, ready to attack.

Black exoskeletons protect them
Even from nuclear weapons,
As they ravage entire nations
Till humanity is almost gone.

From beyond the void of space
Arachnoidal monsters appeared,
Ravaging, devouring human beings
Until extinction has has finally neared.

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


Scheme Abxx xcxc xbxx xdxd xxex ceex Afxf xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 111 1111111 10100111 10100110 111111 01011101 101001101 10111010 110110101 1101101 01011101 10101010 011010111 010101 11010111 101011010 1110111 111110100 10110101 11011 10110010 111001010 10100111 1010111 11001 10001001010 01010111001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 949
Words 156
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 20

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From beyond the void of space Insectile abominations fly, From out of space, out of time Reaching Earth in the dead of night.

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Written on August 07, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 13, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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