Analysis of NIGHT SOLDIERS
Night soldiers marching
From the dream world to the real,
Nightmares approaching you
To make your senses reel.
Silver swords descending
Toward a sleeping figure,
Slicing through their soul’s membrane
Till their body cedes to rigour:
Silently slicing through the cord
That keeps the soul in place;
So that a creeping look of death
Comes ‘pon a sleeping face.
Night soldiers are killing
Innocents as they sleep,
To take them from their dreaming
Into a dream where faces peep:
Faces of the foully killed
Peer into the land of the living,
Hoping to escape the land of death
When a new soul cord is riven.
Silent soldiers creeping
From the land of the dead,
To steal the life of the sleeping
As their souls are sorely bled.
Night armies marching
Into the living world once more,
Fighting mighty battles
From the days of yore.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDED AFAF XAEX AGAG AHXH XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1011101 10101 111101 101010 0101010 101111 1110111 10010101 110101 11010111 110101 110110 100111 1111110 01011101 101011 101011010 101010111 10111110 101010 101101 11011010 1111101 11010 01010111 101010 10111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Horror/fantasy poem about dead soldiers risen to fight the living.
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Written on July 30, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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