Analysis of SERVANTS OF THE REAPER
The servants of the reaper
Perform his loathsome tasks,
Killing, maiming, devastating
Rampaging soon after dark.
Hunting down the innocent
Running completely berserk,
Slaughtering men, women, babies
As they do the Reaper's work.
Throughout the loathsome night
The servants are quietly creeping,
Until they catch the unwary
Then they're brutally reaping.
Tearing limb-from-limb
Every guileless passerby,
Within this moonless avenue
Many innocents will die.
The servants of the reaper
Set out in an evil band,
Spreading death and mayhem
Across this doom-cursed land.
Slaughtering thousands
Within a very short time,
They hunt in plague proportions
Across sunny and wintry climes.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Axbx xcxc xbdb xdxx Aexe xxxx xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 011101 1010100 101101 1010100 1001001 10011010 111011 010101 010110010 01110010 1110010 10111 10010100 011110 1010011 0101010 1101101 10101 011111 10010 0101011 1101010 01100101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 757 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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The servants of the reaper Perform his loathsome tasks, Killing, maiming, devastating Rampaging soon after dark.
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Written on November 16, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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