Analysis of HUNTED
Human prey is hunted
Within the loathsome night,
Carnivores are prowling
Innocents are about to die.
Scaly horrors are slithering
Across the sunburnt sand,
Seeking out human victims
Within this death-curse land.
After Darkfall descends
Monstrosities are prowling,
Families are huddling tight
Innocent babes are howling.
Primates from a distant time
Climbing roofs and steeples,
To break through windows
Slaughtering all the sleepers.
Ancient saurians are hunting
To smash in, steal, plunder
Within this abhorrent place
Foul voices boom like thunder.
Pterosaurs are flapping
Centimetres overhead,
Hunting for the guileless
The wily have already fled.
Human prey is hunted
By foul nightmare beasts,
Soon to be a part of
An awful midnight feast.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcx cdxd xcbc xxxx cexe cfxf Axxx xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 010101 10110 10010111 1101100 01011 1011010 011111 10101 1110 10011001 1001110 110101 101010 11110 1001010 101110 110110 0110101 1101110 1110 100101 101010 01010101 101110 1111 111011 11011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Human prey is hunted Within the loathsome night, Carnivores are prowling Innocents are about to die.
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Written on November 13, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on November 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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