Analysis of SOMETHING CLOSE BEHIND YOU
Danger lurking in the night
As creeping fears remind you,
Of all the things you dread the most
The something close behind you.
Walking slowly through the dark
Evil shadows leaping out,
From the loathsome thickets
Sheer terror is seeping out.
The night is the time you fear
When monstrous shrieking does resound,
And lumbering fills the darkness
As creeping fiends abound.
Something closing – upon its prey?
Keeping step with you, it seems,
A homeless hobo keeping warm?
Or creatures from your darkest dreams?
Dire fantasies filling your mind
Of dark Lovecraftian beasts,
Stalking, hunting, killing people
To partake in unholy feasts.
Footsteps following close behind
Something closing for the kill?
Do dire beasts pursue you evermore,
To achieve a monstrous thrill?
Are terrors of the night-time real
Or buried memories sent to remind you?
Of the dangers hiding everywhere
From something close behind you?
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD EFXF EGXG XAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010001 1101011 11011101 0101011 1010101 101101 101010 1101101 0110111 1101011 01001010 110101 10100111 1011111 01010101 11011101 11001011 1111 10101010 10100101 1100101 1010101 11101110 1010101 11010111 11010011011 10101010 1101011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Danger lurking in the night As creeping fears remind you, Of all the things you dread the most The something close behind you.
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Written on May 12, 2014
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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