Analysis of THE RIDER



The rider takes over your body
Putting you into a trance,
Then like a living puppet
To his evil tune, you'll dance.

You'll do mayhem if he says to
You'll murder at his command,
You'll spread chaos all around you
Right across this sunburnt land.

You'll rape, if he says to rape
You'll murder, if he says to kill,
You'll perform the most evil feats
Just for his loathsome thrill.

You're like his private pony
As he is riding inside your soul,
Malevolence is his purpose
Destruction is his only goal.

Late at night, he'll leave you
To let you get much-needed sleep,
Then finding another vehicle
Around the moonlit town, he creeps.

He jettisons one living ride
When he locates a better one,
Then when he vacates you
You forget everything you've done.

If the police should capture you
He will abandon you to your fate,
Then locate another person
To play his games of hate.

He rides them to the point of death
Then abandons them at his will,
After he has made them vandalise
Made them rape, pillage, and kill.

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


Scheme ABXB CDCD XEXE AFXF CXXX XGCG CHGH XEBE XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 010110110 1010101 1101010 1110111 1111111 1101101 11101011 101111 1111111 11011111 10101101 111101 111101 111100111 11110 01011101 111111 11111101 110010100 0101111 111101 1110101 11111 1011011 10011101 110101111 1101010 111111 11110111 10101111 1011111 1111001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,043
Words 193
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) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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The rider takes over your body Putting you into a trance,

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Written on September 13, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 18, 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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