Analysis of CRYSTAL MANOR HOUSE

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



High in the crystal manor
Evil residents reside,
Along with all that's evil
The good stay safe outside.

Lurid grey-white phantoms
Too horrid to ever tell,
Slink around the corridors
Creatures from Dante's Hell.

Indescribably loathsome
They wreak of only death,
A foul effluvium spews out
With their every breath.

Gold and silver statuettes
Lure in greedy and gullible,
To where abominations wait
Readying to make a kill.

Monsters of all descriptions
From some bygone time,
Come to hide in the manor
From some distant clime.

High in the crystal manor
Evil forces are waiting,
To commit horrendous crimes
Their minds are contemplating.

Horror is slowly rising
Within these gruesome halls,
Mayhem to the Nth degree
As the time-traveller calls.

Back and forth he journeys
Travelling throughout history,
He changes whatever he wants
Until true time is just a mystery.

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


Scheme Abcb xdxd efxf xcxx xxae Agxg ghih xixi xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 1001010 1010001 0111110 011111 101110 1101101 1010100 101101 110 111101 01111 111001 101001 10100100 1111 1001101 1011010 1111 1110010 11101 1001010 1010110 101101 111100 1011010 011101 110101 1011001 101110 10001100 1101011 0111110100 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 942
Words 174
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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High in the crystal manor Evil residents reside, Along with all that's evil The good stay safe outside.

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Written on June 16, 2022

Submitted by philip0157 on June 26, 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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