Analysis of THE DEVIL'S TOWN
Just outside of the Devil's town
Death Riders chase down the living,
Punishing them for the tiniest breach
Because the Devil is so unforgiving.
Within the town foul creatures stalk
Lusting after human meat,
Predators, harvesters, and iron-men
All living there on lonely street.
Imps, and elves, and goblins too
Stalk throughout the Devil's town,
Hoping to catch lone human beings
Hoping soon to drag them down.
People who have failed at life
All join in the Devil's parade,
Losers from the human race
Now living in the eternal shade.
Bright sunlight never shines down hear
Since it is the Devil's own town,
Only moonlight or twilight show
For those who are Hades-bound.
Within the streets of the town
Prehistoric atrocities feast,
After hunting down living prey
Now devouring bloody human meat.
At the very end of their lives
People are sent to the Devil's Town,
It's not a place you can ever come up from
It's a place to which you only go down.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC XAXA XDXD XAXX AXXC XAXA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 11011010 1001101001 01010110010 01011101 1010101 1001000101 11011101 1010101 1010101 101111010 1011111 1011111 11001001 1010101 110000101 1110111 11101011 101111 1111101 0101101 01001001 10101101 1010010101 10101111 101110101 11011110111 1011111011 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 987 |
| Words | 175 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Just outside of the Devil's town Death Riders chase down the living,
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Written on August 06, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on November 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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