Analysis of THE GREEN DEEPS



Out of the green deeps
Comes slimy piscine horror,
Seeking out human food
Bring the beach to terror.

Deafening silence reigning
Within the murky deeps,
Above are people swimming
While below them evil creeps.

Finny tentacles following
Looking just like seaweed,
Rapping around people's legs
Pulling them down to feed.

Innocent men, women, children
Above are splashing  around,
Unaware that finny monsters
Are readying to pull them down.

Aquatic reptilian creatures
Throwbacks to olden times,
Draw to populated waterholes
Within these vacation climes.

Sharks and barracudas flee
Behemoths from the past,
Swimmers joyously splash
Unaware this day is their last.

Leviathans of the depths
Malignancies on the waves,
Reaching up to grab people
Dragging them to their graves.

Out of the green deeps
Rancid, greeny-brown beasts,
Pursuing unwary holidayers
Intent upon a human feast.

THE END
© Copyright 2023, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme Abxb caca cdad xxax aaaa xexe aaxa Aaax xax
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 110110 101101 101110 1001010 010101 0111010 1011101 1100100 10111 1001101 101111 10011010 0111001 011110 11001111 01001010 11101 111001 0110101 1011 010101 1011 0111111 1101 0100101 1011110 101111 11011 10111 0100101 01010101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 955
Words 168
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) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 16

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Out of the green deeps Comes slimy piscine horror, Seeking out human food Bring the beach to terror.

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Written on October 19, 2023

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 19, 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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