Analysis of TERROR FROM THE DAWN OF TIME
Terror from the dawn of time
Long before true life began,
Æon-dead creatures run wild
In the current age of man.
Horrors far too foul to see
Without surely losing your mind,
Far to ghastly for human eyes
Hideous enough to drive you blind.
Bristle-like spines and razer teeth
Designed to chew on meat and bone,
Somehow living in the human age
Belonging to a time long gone.
Pterosaurian reptiles up above
Swooping through the night sky,
Watching for movement below
Until they give a shrilling cry:
Spotting innocents out walking
Pterosaurs are zooming down,
Hoping soon to feast on people
Standing frozen to the ground.
Terror from the dawn of time
Somehow reborn in the present,
Feeding upon the human race
Daemons surely all Hell sent.
Flighted monster from another era
Come to annihilate all humans,
Wiping out every woman and babe
Slaughtering every single man.
Until the Earth is a desert wasteland
Where only grotesquerie reside,
In the ruins of the once-great city
Crumbling since the last person died.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxb cdxd xxxx xexe xxxx Axxx fxxb xgcg xxf |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010111 1011101 111011 0010111 1011111 01101011 11101101 100011111 1011011 01111101 11000101 01010111 110101 101011 1011001 0111011 10100110 11101 10111110 1010101 1010111 1110010 10010101 110111 110101010 11010110 1011001001 100100101 010110101 110101 0010101110 100101101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Terror from the dawn of time Long before true life began, Æon-dead creatures run wild In the current age of man.
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Written on January 26, 2022
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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