Analysis of THE PLOUGHMAN
The Ploughman leads plough horses
Which breath out fire and brimstone,
Toxic fumes, and noxious gases
Creatures from the great unknown.
Following his great Clydesdales
Three-metres or more in height,
The Ploughman ploughs up graves
For those who will die this night.
Ploughing up fields and streets alike
He works on through the darkness,
Following his evil steeds until dawn
When finally the Ploughman can rest.
Some nights he plough a single grave
Other nights a dozen or even more,
Or hundreds in the 21st century
As pestilence is sweeping our shores.
Then he leaves us for other lands
Where they're fighting an endless war,
And he keeps on ploughing every night
Digging graves by a thousand score.
In times of peace and health
He is barely needed most nights,
But now health and peace are rare
He works from dusk until daylight.
Villages talk of hearing hoofbeats
In the fields soon after darkfall,
As he's working at a furious pace
He's plough to answer death's call.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABAB ACXC XXXX XDXX XDCD XXXC AEXE XXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110 11110010 10101010 1010101 100111 1101101 01111 1111111 1110101 1111010 1001101011 11000111 11110101 1010101101 110001100 1100110101 11111101 11101101 011111001 10110101 011101 11101011 1110111 1111011 10011101 0011101 1110101001 1111011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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The Ploughman leads plough horses Which breath out fire and brimstone, Toxic fumes, and noxious gases Creatures from the great unknown.
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Written on September 24, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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