Analysis of SCUTTLING
Scuttling fills the awful night
Carapaced-fiends are crawling,
Around a town now terrified
By incessant chirping calling.
Scratching on the concrete outside
Makes everyone live in fear,
Of perhaps some giant arachnid?
That is ever slowly creeping near.
Something dreadful moving
Scuttering wakes the populace,
Hiding in their half-safe houses
Within this malignant place.
Scraping like something heavy
Is being slowly dragged around,
Chitinous forms are burrowing
A few metres below the town
Scaping in the sewerage pipes
Just underneath the street,
Making people stuck inside
Afraid of everything they meet.
Scuttling fills the awful night
As Jurassic leviathans sprawl,
Shrilling fills the pitch-black town
As starving behemoths call.
The clicker-clack of giant pincers
Fills the night once darkfall descends,
Shivering people are weeping indoors
As their final hopes come to an end.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb cdxd bxxx xxbe xfcf Ageg xxxh hxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 11110 0101110 10101010 10100111 110101 101110010 111010101 101010 110100 10011110 0110101 1011010 11010101 10011100 01100101 1001001 10101 1010101 0111011 10010101 101011 110111 1100101 010111010 1011101 100101101 111011111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 965 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Scuttling fills the awful night Carapaced-fiends are crawling, Around a town now terrified By incessant chirping calling.
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Written on February 14, 2022
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on March 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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