Analysis of A TOWN NAMED DESOLATION
In a town named desolation
Terror stalking across the land,
Withered things come crawling in
From out the scorching desert sand.
In a town where all hope is long gone
And people live in desperation,
Just hoping to live another day
As night brings out abominations.
Screeching filling the night, as
Goliaths swoop through the air,
Journeyers scatter far and wide
As terrors come from everywhere.
Late-night travellers run and hide
As haunting flapping fills the sky,
When leviathan creatures wing past
Any passing people will surely die.
Burrowers beneath are digging
Mischievously hiding underground,
Waiting for innocent passersby,
To grab their feet and pull them down.
In a town named desolation
Truly, only fear and sorrow remain,
Where goodness of any kind has died
And the residents soon all go insane.
Death is lurking in the shadows
In every street of this awful town,
Where everyone prays to leave
And where moving in, is moving down.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxb xaxc cded efxf xxxg Aheh cgxg xcx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011010 10100101 1011100 11010101 001111111 01010010 110110101 11111 1010011 1001101 110101 1101110 11100101 11010101 101001011 1010101101 10001110 11010 101100100 11110111 0011010 1010101001 110110111 0010011101 1110001 0100111101 110111 011001101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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In a town named desolation Terror stalking across the land, Withered things come crawling in From out the scorching desert sand.
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Written on February 14, 2022
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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