Analysis of IN THE HAUNTED NIGHT
In the haunted night
Late travellers walk alone,
Unaware of loathsome things
Following them to their home.
Hideous night creatures
Lurking in every shadow,
While bat-wing monsters soar
Watching you walking below.
Night Gaunts, Verdillacs, shoggoths
Watching you slowly walking,
Unwary of flying behemoths
Who just overhead are stalking.
While underground, burrowers
Following your every movement,
Keeping in perfect step with you
By sniffing out your scent.
In the haunted night
Malevolent shadows follow you,
Throughout the doom-curse night
Watching everything you do.
Crawlers leave a trail
Of loathsome blue-green slime,
Hunting human beings down
Dissolving them in nighttime.
Leviathan beasts smash their way
Through homes, hospices, and hotels,
Gulping down all living things
They hunt out purely by smell.
Death is coming sooner
Than most villagers could foresee,
From out of the pitch-black night
Incapable of showing any mercy.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Axbx cdxd bexe cxfx Afaf xgxg xxbx xhah xxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
| Metre | 00101 1100101 011101 1001111 100110 1001001 111101 1011001 1111 1011010 010110010 11101110 110100 100110010 10001111 110111 00101 01001101 010111 101011 1101 110111 1010101 010101 01001111 11100001 1011101 1111011 111010 11100101 1110111 01001101010 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,016 |
| Words | 174 |
| 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) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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In the haunted night Late travellers walk alone, Unaware of loathsome things Following them to their home.
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Written on September 06, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on December 08, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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