Analysis of DARKLING
Darkling creatures hiding
Just beyond your sight,
Glance ever so slowly to see
Them, in the corner of your eye.
Loathsome spirit entities
Hide in shadows all their own,
Dwelling nearby yet unseen
Within your suburban home.
Obscure, unknowable things
Gliding ghostly round your room,
Avoiding the glaring sunlight
Preferring to dwell within gloom.
Darkling events are happening
Wherever they are all unseen,
Never where you are right now
But where you just have been.
Darkling beings whispering
Just beyond any human hearing,
Sending nightmare images
Inside your head, so searing.
Unseen, as if in the darkness
Darkling fiends are haunting,
Teasing, touching, chittering
Shadowy figures are taunting.
Playful yet deceitful figures
Invading your life and being,
Centimetres beyond your sight
Whispery, waffling unseeing.
Darkling creatures hiding
In angles just beyond your view,
Sliding silently from just behind
Carefully sneaking up on you.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Abxx xxcx xdbd acxx aaxa xaaa xaba Aexe xxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10111 11011011 10010111 1010100 101111 1011101 0110101 0101001 1010111 0100101 01011011 1011100 01011101 1011111 111111 110100 101101010 101100 0111110 01110010 11110 10101 10010110 10101010 01011010 1000111 1101 11010 01010111 101001101 10010111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,021 |
| Words | 177 |
| 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) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Darkling creatures hiding Just beyond your sight, Glance ever so slowly to see Them, in the corner of your eye.
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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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