Analysis of ISLAND OF NO RETURN



There's an island in the Pacific
From which no one ever returns,
Evil tom-toms pound out death
And goodness is forever spurned.

Voodoo, witchcraft, evil magic
Rule the terrified population,
Hiding, shivering inside at night
As phantoms dance in celebration.

Celebrating the evil practices
Performed 'neath the dark moon's light,
An unholy ululation soon arises
Like a susurration of the awful night.

Long forbidden rituals are done
Far away from all prying eyes,
Witches, goblins, foul crawling things
Dance, swirling as innocents die.

There's an island in the Pacific
From which no goodness ever comes,
Where always death seems imminent
And where only evil deeds are done.

Deviated beings are swarming
Across the sun-blasted sand,
On this foul place in the pacific
This most loathsome of islands.

Horrors haunt the darkness
Screaming fill the night-time,
Nightmare creatures are hunting
Across this most repulsive clime.

Evil goblins and gremlins
Are haunting this fearful place,
Setting up a monster's paradise
By wiping out the human race!

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


Scheme Axxx abcb dcdc bxxx Axxb exax xfef xgxg xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 111000010 11111001 1011111 01010101 111010 1010010 101000111 11010010 100010100 0110111 101011010 10110101 110010011 10111101 10101101 11011001 111000010 11110101 1111100 011010111 10010110 0101101 111100010 1110110 101010 101011 110110 01110101 1010010 1101101 1010110 11010101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,122
Words 198
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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There's an island in the Pacific From which no one ever returns, Evil tom-toms pound out death And goodness is forever spurned.

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Written on July 25, 2022

Submitted by philip0157 on September 15, 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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