Analysis of The hunter
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
The hunter soon will waken
Will rise up in all his glory
And don his robes of power,
The hunter will search out food
And before he has never failed,
The hunter was born to hunt and kill,
As his prey was born to be hunted and fed upon.
The hunter can never die
Can never be brought down by his intended quarry.
For he is too swift, too smart
Supernatural? Perhaps? Or perhaps
Only outside our understanding,
The hunter has lived for aeons
And aeons more will he live,
And in his coming, much prey will fall
For no mercy can be given.
This hunter will never die
Can never be stopped in his hunting.
Hunting out human food
Hunting for mortal trophies
Human heads to hang on his walls,
Mementoes of his greatest kills
Great fighters he defeated,
Warriors he brought down
Despite their bad reputations.
The hunter has never failed
Can never let failure stop him.
On into the frozen wastes
The hunter seeks out victims
Humans to kill and feast upon,
Never one to accept defeat
The Hunter won't be stopped,
As he hunts for food and glory
By besting all he encounters.
The hunter can never die
Can never be brought down by his intended quarry.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 11101110 0111110 0101111 00111101 010111101 1111111100101 0101101 1101111101010 1111111 010001101 101110010 0101111 011111 001101111 11101110 1101101 110110110 101101 1011010 10111111 111101 1101010 100111 0111010 0101101 11011011 1010101 0101110 10110101 10110101 010111 11111010 11011010 0101101 1101111101010 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,175 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 2, 7, 2, 7, 2, 7, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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