Analysis of SHADOWY FIGURES
Shadowy figures are hiding
Out in the malignant night,
A malevolent moon glares down
Upon innocents after twilight.
Phantom figures are slinking
Through the dark and lonely town,
Shrieking fills the horrid night
Wicked burrowers tunnel underground.
Bat-like Verdillac are winging
Just metres above your head,
Planning soon to snatch you up
And make the night streets red.
Shrilling in ungodly hunger
Gigantic monsters swooping down,
Hoping soon to feast upon you
Within this loathsome town.
Baneful borrowers beneath
Following you as you walk,
Hoping to beat the Verdillac to you
As under the streets they stalk.
Shadow figures silently creeping
Under the maleficent moonlight,
Slowly following after you
Within this blood-stained night.
Green Men, Chosen, and Travellers
Shades and phantoms, and egrigor,
All slowly watching you from nearby,
Night feeders, predators, manticore.
In this foul and horrid night
Shadowy figures are plotting no good,
As through the town, they follow you
Out into the neighbouring woods.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCB ACBX ADXD ECFC XGFG ABFB XEXE BXFX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010110 1000101 00100111 01100101 101011 1010101 1010101 101001010 111110 1100111 1011111 010111 1001010 01010101 10111011 011101 110001 1001111 10110111 1100111 11010010 10011 10100101 011111 11100100 101001 110101111 1101001 0110101 1001011011 11011101 101011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 167 |
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) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Shadowy figures are hiding Out in the malignant night,
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Written on August 11, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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