Analysis of NIGHT MONSTERS



Night Gaunts haunt your dreams
Bringing your nightmares alive,
Haunting you, hunting you
Till you barely can survive.

Maticores, zombies, and griffins
Pervading your every thought,
Until your hopes of sanity
All seem to come to naught.

Travellers, reapers, ghouls
Slinking through the dark night,
Making you long for the daytime
Fearful of, encroaching twilight.

Endless streams of atrocities
Invading your waking dreams,
Swirling, twirling through your mind
Till nothing is as it seems.

El Chupacabra is approaching
As, helplessly you sleep,
In through your bedroom window
Then around your room he creeps.

Vampires, werewolfs, and egrigors
Lurching through your house,
As quiet as death itself
Much quieter than any mouse.

Doppelgangers and the bugler
Marching to a lonesome song,
Telling you, your time is nigh
Your life just isn't strong.

Atonal melodies reach out
From every nook and bend,
Telling you, this dreadful night
Is when your life must end.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme ABXB ACXC XDXD XAXA XXXX AEXE XFXF XGDG GXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 101101 101101 1110101 11001 01011001 01111100 111111 10011 11011 1011101 1010101 10110100 0101101 1010111 1101111 111010 110011 011110 1011111 10101 10111 1101101 11001101 1001 1010101 1011111 111101 01010011 1100101 1011101 111111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 993
Words 161
Sentences 9
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Night Gaunts haunt your dreams Bringing your nightmares alive, Haunting you, hunting you Till you barely can survive.

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Written on July 17, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

 · 1957 · Melbourne

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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