Analysis of INTO THE AWFUL NIGHT



Out into the awful night
Innocent couples are walking,
While only metres behind them
Evil creatures are stalking.

Shadowy figures following
As the guileless couple walk,
Watching them holding hands
Hearing their lovers's talk.

Strolling slowly hand-in-hand
The lovers reach a wooden bench,
Then as the stalkers close in
They smell a monstrous stench.

Too late the couple turn around
To face an abominable dread,
Then in the morning a passerby
Finds the couple cruelly dead.

Out into the awful night
Malignant creatures crawling,
Shrilling beneath the moonlight
Malevolent beings are calling.

Under the blood moon's rays
Sinister shadows are forming,
While as the unwary pass by
Loathsome fiends are swarming.

Travellers are slowly walking
Beneath the moon's dire pall,
As in the darkened night
They can hear a dreadful call.

As the people attempt to flee
Behemoths start to holler,
Then as they folk start running
The leviathan horrors follow.

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


Scheme Abxb bcxc xdxd xefe Abab xbxb bxax fxbx xxx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 1010101 10010110 11010011 1010110 10010100 1010101 101101 10111 1010101 01010101 1101010 110101 11010101 111010001 100100100 1010101 1010101 0101010 10101 010010110 100111 1001110 11001011 101110 10011010 010111 100101 1110101 10100111 0101110 1111110 001001010 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 982
Words 161
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) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Out into the awful night Innocent couples are walking, While only metres behind them Evil creatures are stalking.

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Written on October 06, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 06, 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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