Analysis of BLACK HORIZON
Beyond the black horizon
Darkling creatures reside,
Hoping for innocents to come
But safely indoors they hide.
Kerbside beings are hunting
Searching for human or beast,
Hoping soon to run them down
Then to gorge on a bloody feast.
Nightlings scour the roadside
Hoping to find human road kill,
Or living things to rip and rend
Guzzling till they've had their fill.
Beyond the black horizon
Revenants lurching all around,
Lumbering after the living
As they stalk this solemn town.
Shoggoths winging overhead
Throughout the endless night,
Wyvern haunting the land
Til suddenly taking to flight.
In a town named purgatory
Just beyond the black horizon,
People are living in mortal fear
For all goodness is forever gone.
Chittering fills the haunted night
As avian monstrosities fly,
Multi-taloned fiends aflight
As innocents are passing by.
Below walks a courting couple
Strolling together hand-in-hand,
Then feathered fiends swoop down
Leaving but blood-soaked land.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abxb cded bfbf Axce xghg xaxx gibi xheh xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 11001 10110011 110111 110110 1011011 1011111 11110101 11001 10111011 11011101 10011111 0101010 110101 10010010 1111101 110101 010101 11001 11001011 0011100 10101010 101100101 111010101 110101 110011 10111 11001101 01101010 10010101 110111 101111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,044 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Beyond the black horizon Darkling creatures reside, Hoping for innocents to come But safely indoors they hide.
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Written on November 29, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on December 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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