Analysis of Satan's Child
She's five foot two and quite a sight. Bet your life you'll find.
A hundred pounds of dynamite, enough to blow your mind.
I can't forget that raven hair or the evil way she smiled.
She'd make a sin of Holy Prayer. They call her Satan's child.
A lily-white complexion is just part of her disguise.
A glaring imperfection is the devil in her eyes.
She's a walkin', talkin' statue. If she gets you all alone,
don't let her look straight at you, cuz she'll turn your heart to stone.
Beware of Satan's child, she'll destroy you if you let her.
She'll leave you broken and beguiled, and I swear you won't forget her.
Beware of Satan' child, just hear me when I say:
She'll drive a sane man wild if he lets her have her way.
Women come and women go, or so they always say.
But those of us she came to know just won't forget that day.
Her ruby lips and ivory skin could melt the hardest rock.
And once she's touched your soul within, she'll stop it like a clock.
I tell you man you must beware. Just listen to me sir!
There're too many women out there to get tangled up with her.
Her story is a mystery in a book that I've compiled;
a chapter of the history of a gal called Satan's child.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF FFGG EEBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010111111 0101110011111 110111011010111 1101110111011 01010101111001 0100101010001 1011011111101 11011111111111 0111110111110 1111000101111010 011101111111 1101111110101 101010111111 11111111110111 010101001110101 01111101111101 11111101110111 1011010111110110 010101000011101 01010100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,184 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
I had written this poem a while ago and just recently tweaked it to my liking. I thought I would have a little fun with this month's entry. I could just see the old storyteller, Charlie Daniels fiddling away with this one.
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