Analysis of CAVORTING
Cavorting beings haunt the night
Round an evil blood-stained altar,
Swirling dervish like creatures
Do an evil dance, without falter.
In the descending twilight time
As the witching hour approaches,
The innocents sleep safe inside
Unaware of evil that encroaches:
Encroaching upon their sanity
Round a brazier horrors swirl,
Disappearing into the gloom, then
Goblins and imps begin to twirl.
As the Darkfall slowly descends
The blood moon rises overhead,
Calling out demented fiends
Filling decent minds with dread.
Out of the dark and evil night
Monstrosities begin to prance,
Warlocks and witches appear
Searing the night as they dance.
Cavorting beings haunt the night
Abominations of every kind,
Lurid, loathsome nightmare things
Whose mere vision drives you blind.
Gremlins, gargoyles, ghosts, and ghouls
Spreading terror after midnight time,
Shrieking like the voice of death
Corrupting even the sands of time.
Devils, dæmons, and even demi-gods
Join in the chorus of the night,
Spreading their poison all around
Till all things have died from the blight.
THE END
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Scheme | Abxb cxxx xdxd xexe afxf Agxg xcxc xaxa xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 11101110 1010110 111010110 0001011 101010010 01001101 011101010 010011100 10100101 01001011 10010111 1011001 01110101 1010101 1010111 11010101 10111 101001 1001111 01010101 111001 101011 1110111 101101 10101011 1010111 010100111 1011010101 10010101 10110101 11111101 01 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Cavorting beings haunt the night Round an evil blood-stained altar, Swirling dervish like creatures Do an evil dance, without falter.
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Written on February 21, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on April 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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