Analysis of THE GREEN-MERMAID INN
Within a glass tank
A beautiful green maiden,
Breathing in water?
A rural inn houses
What seems to be a mermaid,
Put there on display.
People stop and stare
Wondering if the mermaid,
Could be truly real?
People can vanish
Sometimes in a twinkling
Does the mermaid feed?
Ignoring warnings
Sometimes people get too close,
Then they may vanish.
Ignoring the danger
Some fools lift the lid to stare,
At the horror there.
Outside of water
Her true form is revealed,
Too horrid to consider.
All lethal sharp spines
Teeth as long as carving knives,
The Mermaid's true form.
Snake-like yellow eyes
Lidless and slitted, glaring
Like Satan himself.
Legs green and scaly
No green beauty now in sight,
Only ugliness.
Glaring over the top
At those it means to kill,
Snarling as it leaps.
Leaping from the tank
The creature starts a panic,
Gawpers turn to run.
Rapidly it catches
The fleeing panicked crowd,
Killing everyone.
Then out it goes
Heading toward the sea,
To lure unwary sailors.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABC DEF GEX HIX XXH CGG CXC XXX XIX FXX XXX AXB DXB XXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 01011 0100110 10010 010110 111101 11101 10101 100101 11101 10110 0100100 1011 01010 0110111 11110 010010 1110111 10101 11110 011101 1101010 11011 1111101 0111 11101 10110 11001 1101 1110101 10100 101001 111111 10111 10101 0101010 1111 100110 010101 1010 1111 100101 1101010 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,010 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Within a glass tank A beautiful green maiden, Breathing in water?
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Written on May 22, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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