Analysis of DEATH RIDERS



Death Riders thunder across the plains
Riding on pitch-black stallions,
Chasing down lone travellers
Like the Devil's own battalions.

Manes and tails flying in the wind
As chargers race through the night,
Making pin-point turns at high speed
Completely fearless in their flight.

Lone walkers do not stand a chance
As the Riders race down upon them,
Like nightmare visions in the dark
From the most awful dreams ever dreamt.

Horses snorting like fiery dragons
As they bear down on innocent prey,
Eyes are shining like demonic gems
Dashing 'neath the blood moon's rays.

Death riders on their evil steeds
Galloping after people on the run,
A cutlass flashing, good folk dying
All for the sake of monstrous fun.

Horses fly toward fleeing runners
Hoping soon to run them down,
In the overgrown forest night
Just outside on the Devil's Town.

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


Scheme XABA XCXC XXXX AXXX XDXD BECE XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110100101 1011110 1011100 10101010 10110001 1101101 10111111 01010011 11011101 101011011 1110001 101101101 1010110010 111111001 111010101 1010111 11011101 1001010101 010101110 11011101 101011010 1011111 0001101 11110101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 881
Words 151
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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Death Riders thunder across the plains Riding on pitch-black stallions, Chasing down lone travellers Like the Devil's own battalions.

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Written on August 05, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 15, 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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