Analysis of BLOOD BAYOU

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Blood Bayou is calling you
Enticing you from your home,
Hoping to make you set out
For a horrid, watery doom.

Gater-like men reside there
In the smelly, slimy dank,
Even they fear the waterway
Sticking to the mud-slick bank.

Screeching fills the night-time
Deviant avians are flying by,
Luckless fishermen tread there
Unaware they're about to die.

Serpentine horrors slithering
About the blood-soaked ground,
Then rush out into Blood Bayou
At the slightest whispered sound.

Blood Bayou is calling you
To feed abominable things,
That and stalk the muddy bank
Foul-smelling noxious beings,

Nightmare creatures hiding
On the bank in loathsome reeds,
Leaping out at innocent fishers
To perform unspeakable deeds.

Wailing fills the night-time  there
Crying fills up the daytime,
Mindless horrors slither and crawl
Throughout this blood-soaked clime.

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


Scheme Abxx cdxd efcf ghah Aidi gjxj cexb xxx
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101 0101111 1011111 10101001 111011 0010101 1011010 1010111 101011 10011101 1010011 0110111 1010100 010111 11101110 1010101 1101101 11010001 1010101 1101010 11010 1010101 101110010 10101001 1010111 101101 10101001 011111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 924
Words 162
Sentences 7
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Blood Bayou is calling you Enticing you from your home, Hoping to make you set out For a horrid, watery doom.

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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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