Analysis of The creature in the park
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Reflexion of life
Loping through the dark gardens,
Searching for live prey.
The creature is a throwback
To a nightmare time,
In the distant past.
A tired old man
Wandering through the gardens,
Sees the night creature.
At first, the man thinks
That he must have gone insane,
So he continues onward.
The old man had sought
A place where he could sleep,
Now he sleeps eternally.
Deeper in the park
A woman lies on the grass,
Beside her lover.
The creature moves near
Stalking after the lovers,
But the couple turn.
The woman takes flight
To save herself from the fiend,
And her young man dies.
Next day the woman
Tells of the fiend that she saw,
Yet no one believes her.
Then later that day
The man's body is found,
So a manhunt begins.
That night another life
Is lost to the creature,
And for many nights more.
The National Guard is sent
To scour through the park,
But without any success.
The creature has gone
He flew the coop just in time,
And never is caught.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABC XDX XBE XXX XXX FXE XXX XXX XXE CXX AEX XFX XDX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 110110 10111 010101 1011 00101 01011 1001010 10110 11011 1111101 1101010 01111 011111 1110100 10001 0101101 01010 01011 1010010 10101 01011 1101101 00111 11010 1101111 111010 11011 011011 10101 110101 111010 011011 0100111 110101 1011001 01011 1101101 01011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 992 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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