Analysis of THE ICY GRIP OF DEATH
Death stalks the wastelands
An icy, frozen nowhere,
Nothing survives here.
The Frigid night air
Is chilling your very soul,
Bringing with it death.
Cones of Intense white
Breathtaking blue-white landscape,
Brings intense trauma
Icy hands of fear
Playing upon your spine like,
The fingers of death.
Surrender yourself
To death’s sudden icy grip,
Lost out in the Alps.
Evil happening
The icy cold grip of death,
Strikes the unwary.
Ice cold scimitars
Like the claws of death itself,
Caressing your spine.
The icy grip of death
Grasping a new victim,
Killing him slowly.
Atonal rhythms
Swept along by an icy wind
The melody of death?
Icy waterways
Leading to a frozen Hell,
Human life now gone.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABX BXC XXD XXC EXA XCF AEX CXF AXC AXX XAD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 110101 10011 01011 1101101 10111 11011 10111 10110 10111 1001111 01011 01001 1110101 11001 10100 0101111 10010 111 1011101 01011 010111 100110 10110 01010 10111101 010011 1010 1010101 10111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
This started out as a single haiku, then years later I expanded it into a much longer poem.
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Written on March 19, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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