Analysis of DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
On the dark night of the soul
Only evil walks this land,
Empty promises freely flow
Across red desert sands.
In a place now lost to fear
The dark night omens doom,
Nothing decent fills the land
Dark shadows creep about your room.
On your last night of sanity
Only terrors invade your brain,
Swirling, monstrous faces
Driving you half insane.
Nightmare creatures haunting
From some Lovecraftian realm,
Shoggoths, night gaunts, Elder Gods
With Great Cthulhu at the helm.
Manticores and hippogriffs
Invading your mind at sleep,
As around your lonely bed
A minotaur slowly creeps.
On the dark night of the soul
Only great evil dwells,
Sending you torrid dreams
Straight to you from Hell.
On this evil night
The final night of your life?
Horrid nightmares hover
Terror is ever rife.
On the dark night of the soul
Only demons will attend,
Creeping closer to you on
The night your life will end.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Abxc xdbd xexe xfxf cxxx Axxx xgxg Ahxh hxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1010111 10100101 011101 0011111 011101 1010101 1110111 11111100 10100111 101010 101101 11010 1111 111101 111101 101 0101111 1011101 01101 1011101 101101 101101 11111 11101 0101111 10110 101101 1011101 1010101 1010111 011111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 926 |
| Words | 165 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
On the dark night of the soul Only evil walks this land, Empty promises freely flow Across red desert sands.
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Written on July 15, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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