Analysis of SHADOWY FIGURES (II)
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Shadowy figures are soaring
Through the loathsome air,
Seeking out any living being
To add to their bill of fare.
Shadowy forms as wafting
Along in the twilight sky,
Drifting down onto their prey
Then feasting through the night.
As thin as a gossamer veil
Shadow creatures do descend,
Upon unsuspecting people
To bring life to an end.
They suck out all bodily fluids
After leeching upon their prey,
Leaving behind mere empty husks
To be discovered by the light of day.
As light as strands of cobweb
They drift upon the night wind,
Ancient carnivorous creature
From when time did barely begin.
Since the very dawn of time
Silken beings have sailed,
Through the pitch-black night
Only hoping to prevail:
Prevail to keep on living
By dehydrating the innocent,
Like vampires sucking out blood
These deadly flying filaments.
In a place named shadowland
Shadowy figures are soaring,
While on the ground below them
Their dying victims are roaring.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abab axcd efxf xcxc xxxx xxde axxx xAxa fxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010110 10101 101101010 1111111 1001110 010011 1011011 110101 11101001 110101 0101010 111111 111110010 1010111 10011101 1101010111 111111 1101011 10010010 11111001 1010111 101011 10111 1010101 0111110 110100 1101011 11010100 001110 10010110 1101011 11010110 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,020 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
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) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Shadowy figures are soaring Through the loathsome air, Seeking out any living being To add to their bill of fare.
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Written on February 21, 2022
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on March 06, 2022
Modified on April 06, 2023
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