Analysis of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
From within a mouldering grave
Something monstrous climbs out
Intent upon wreaking chaos on
Humanity without any doubt.
Once living, then later dead
The thing is now not quite living,
Blaming the humans for its death
The creature is unforgiving.
Not quite a zombie or a ghoul
It remains something in between,
A foul abomination from Hell
More horrid than anything e'er seen.
An atrocity not quite living
Returned to hunt humanity down,
Determined to seek a foul revenge
By leading a rampage into town.
A rampage of monstrosities
That it leads against the human race,
The Whistler, The Passenger, the Piper
And Leviathans without a face.
All set out to do battle with Man
Hoping that soon humanity will end,
Within this doom-haunted night
An army like only Satan could send.
From within his mouldering grave
A putrid being slowly rises,
To lead battalion of living dead
Against the humans that he despises.
A massacre indeed takes place
Upon the town in the dead of night,
But too soon for the fiends content
His army is bested by a new day's light.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB CDXD XEXE DFXF GGXG XHIH AGCG GIXI HGX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101011 101011 010110101 010001101 1101101 01111110 10010111 01010010 11010101 10110001 01001011 110110101 101001110 011101001 010110101 11001011 0111 111010101 0100100010 010101 111111011 1011010011 0111101 1101101011 101111 010101010 110101101 0101011010 01000111 010100111 11110110 11011010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,087 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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From within a mouldering grave Something monstrous climbs out Intent upon wreaking chaos on Humanity without any doubt.
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Written on August 06, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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