Analysis of Exorcist (Broken Cross)
The cross is facing darkness...
What are the odds...?
Their stares are chained together
One drunk with rage, the other - doubtless!
Awaiting hand of god...
...devotion without question...
Skin - burns... Step closer, demon!
Let's purify, and rid of ALL that's heathen!
He prays in silence... scars across the face
Child's blood trace, leading to the locker...
Cannot delay... debts MUST be paid!
So he will use - forbidden skill
Some call it - The Holy Burning....
Just as the beast begins slow turning,
Ready to attack! Eyes - emanating feral steam!
He holds his breath....and then unleashes
Untamed and overwhelming scream!!!!
Amount of light becomes white madness!
Torched hands ablaze with pain!
ALL shadows gone!!! All movement strained!!! ALL dust unsettled!!!
By roaring sound and trembling earth!
For what is worth - he's screaming more!!!
So barely heard in the surrounding chaos....
...NO....NE PATRIS...ET..........TUS SANCTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!
When room is barely cleared, he CHARGES after traces!
Passing remains of fallen foe, where evil is no more...
He runs, in hopes of bringing smiles - to captive's face
There was sufficient time! There HAD to be!
God give him haste!!!
He finds... inside the locker - terror!!! Loss....And sorrow...
No smiles for little one, and no tomorrow...
Why.......? Why did the child deserve to die?!!!!
There WAS sufficient time....!
But no one is around to answer....
So many battles...holy wars, but never such horrendous loss...
As Servant... his ground was always with Devotion stood...
But Works...
The Plan...
...were never truly understood...
he stayed there...
staring at the shards of broken cross,
seeking strength - to face the darkness....
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010 1101 1111010 111101010 010111 0100110 1111010 1100111110 1101010101 111101010 10011111 11111001 11101010 110101110 101011100101 11111010 100101 011101110 110111 111110111010 110101001 11111101 11010001010 111 1111011101010 10011101110111 11011101111 1101011111 1111 110101010110 1111010101 111010111 110101 111101110 110111101101 110111110101 11 01 0101001 111 101011101 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,741 |
Words | 276 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 6, 1, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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