Analysis of DARK STREETS



Terror stalks the dark streets
Shambling down unlit alleyways,
Lurching after unwary souls
Beneath the blood moon's rays.

Evil rules a lonely town by night
Foul beings hunt the thoroughfares,
Burrowers scurry underground
Pterosaurs gliding through the air.

Witches and even fallen priest
Give worship to everything evil,
Carousing around a bloody altar
Attempting to conjure the devil.

Whirling dervishes swirl around
As Manticores take off to flight,
Fear and trembling do abound
As death is stalking in this night.

Hopelessness is now prevalent
Panic fills the frightened populace,
All now hiding grimly locked inside
Intending to escape this awful place.

Terror stalks the dark streets
Within a town named Sorrow,
Hiding, shivering in the darkness
Hoping to make off on the morrow.

Centaurs and deadly phoenixes fly
Above a terrified, darkened town,
Where desperation is growing wild
And misery and hopelessness abound.

THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme Abxb cxdx xexe dcdc xfxx Agfg xxxd xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 101011 11110 10100101 010111 101010111 1101010 1001010 110101 10010101 11011010 0100101010 010110010 101101 111111 10100101 11110011 10011100 101010100 111010101 0101011101 101011 0101110 101000010 101111010 101011 01010101 10101101 0100010001 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,002
Words 174
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) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 19

About this poem

Horror poem, written between the 7th and 28th of April 2022,

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Written on April 28, 2022

Submitted by philip0157 on April 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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