Analysis of Out of time and space
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Out of an unknown universe
Foul creatures out of place,
Come to Earth to conquer
From out of time and space.
From the ends of time itself
Evil creatures come,
Unrelenting till the time
When all their plans are done.
Feeding off humanity
Creatures from out of space,
Sucking out mortal energy
Feasting ‘pon the human race.
Out of time and space
Comes creeping, slinking fiends,
Here to devastate the Earth
No matter by what means.
Energy is their only food
It is what they sup on,
Leaving behind dry husks
From which all life is gone.
No-one but the insane believe
That the creatures are even here,
Shrieking in their padded cells
As from space terror nears.
Slurping out the living essence
Draining Man of all life-force,
Taking all the vital juices
Leaving an empty bag-like corpse.
All mammalian forms of life
Are in danger of this awful death,
Lifeless bodies once were vital
Now bereft of life or breath.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XXXX BABA AXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XCXC XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110110 110111 111110 111101 1011101 10101 010101 111111 1010100 101111 10110100 1010101 11101 11011 111001 110111 10011101 111111 100111 111111 11100101 10101101 1001101 111101 1101010 1011111 10101010 10110111 10100111 101011101 10101010 1011111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 171 |
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) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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