Analysis of THE LAND OF DREAMS

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Creatures from the land of dreams
Invading the land of the living,
Nightmare creatures come to life
Grotesquely foul beings.

A nightmare place of endless horrors
Manticores, hippogryphs, and dragons,
The Verdillac, the Harvester, the Green-Man
A horrid litany that goes on and on.

The Kraken, Basilisk, and Blemmyae
Awful beasts from horrid dreams,
Breaking through to the living world
Making the whole world scream.

Stampeding into the living world
Arachne, the Balayang, and Kelpie,
Nightmare creatures on the prowl
El Chupacrabra, Kushtaka, and Selkie.

Nightmare creatures from unreality
Now invading our living land,
Making humanity their slaves
Enslave by this evil band.

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


Scheme ABXX XXXX XACX CXXB XDXD XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 010011010 110111 010110 01111010 11010 010100011 01010011101 01101 1011101 10110101 100111 010010101 10101 110101 11101 11010100 101010101 10010011 0111101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 727
Words 113
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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Creatures from the land of dreams Invading the land of the living,

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Written on March 14, 2014

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 19, 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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