Analysis of OUT OF THE HAUNTED NIGHT
Out of the haunted night
Foul predators slowly creep,
Looking for unwary walkers
Wandering like Bo Peep's sheep.
Lost, alone, and so very lonely
The foolish travel out in the night,
Fodder for an evil waterhorse
Out hunting after twilight.
Ceffyl Dŵr, Capaill Uisce, bäckahäst
Each galloping after human prey,
Hoping soon to devour their quarry
Then turn and swiftly lope away.
The slime beast leaves an awful trail
Blue-green acid left upon the ground,
To dissolve the living into oozing filth
For the monster to greedily slurp down.
A pool of foul-smelling sludge
A warning of where the beast has been,
Even other monsters are wary
Of this creature, so obscene.
Out into the haunted night
Only the naive would ever go,
Unwary of abominations
Like the world has never known.
Stay inside, don't ever linger
Outdoors in the malignant night,
For if the terrors don't devour you
You could very well die of fright.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCB DACA XEDE XXXX XXDX AXCX XAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1100101 10101010 1001111 101011010 010101001 1011101 110101 11111111 110010101 1011010110 11010101 01111101 111010101 10101001101 1010110011 0111101 010110111 101010110 1110101 1010101 10011101 01011 1011101 10111010 11000101 1101010101 11101111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 956 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Out of the haunted night Foul predators slowly creep,
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Written on August 07, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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