Analysis of THE NIGHT PROWLER
In a dark and dreary corner
Of a morbid, eerie room,
Prowls a creature of the darkness
Hidden in the murky gloom.
Through creeping shadows
It hunts unwilling prey,
Hoping soon to feast on mortals
Then to slowly slink away.
In a house the wise avoid
Lonely losers sleep their last,
Unaware a deadly prowler
Waits to sup a dire repast.
In a building once resplendent
Now bereft of hope or light,
Prowls a fiend too foul to mention
Planning soon to feast tonight.
Disbelieving of the legends
Of a fiend that stalks the dark,
Students on a college prank
Visit the building as a lark.
In the morning none emerges
To return to waiting homes,
So the police investigate and
In the house find clean-picked bones.
So the house is now condemned
And the prowler must move on,
To a new and dire abode
For soon new evil must be done.
In a new emerging twilight
In a village far away,
A loathsome prowler lurks within
A dire old house to kill again.
THE END
© Copyright 2011
Philip Roberts, Melbourne, Australia
Scheme | ABXB XCXC DXAD XEFE XGXG XXXX XXXF ECXX XEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101010 1010101 10101010 1000101 1101 110101 10111110 1110101 0010101 1010111 0101010 111011 00101010 1011111 10111110 1011101 00101010 1011101 1010101 10010101 00101010 1011101 10010100 0011111 1011101 0010111 1010101 11110111 0010101 0010101 01010101 01111101 01 10 101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,006 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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In a dark and dreary corner Of a morbid, eerie room, Prowls a creature of the darkness
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Written on May 21, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on November 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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