Analysis of THE OUTPOST
Zombies guard the outpost
In a loathsome muddy place,
In a war that's gone on for millennia
Throughout all time and space.
Undead soldiers keep on fighting
In a war that can never be won,
It's gone on for thousands of years
And will continue until time is done.
In a quagmire where nothing lives
Skeletal warriors swordfight,
The clanking of blades resounding
Throughout the loathsome night.
Vampires, werewolfs, Babadook
All join in the horrid affray,
Warring through the pitch-black night
Until the first light of day.
Manticores, griffin, and egrigors
Keep fighting for centuries,
Against a battalion of evil
Ceaseless, merciless undying enemies.
In an outpost no-one cherishes
In a place that none call home,
An endless battle keeps raging on
Until all space and time is done.
Nothing decent stays there
And nothing living can,
Only soldiers now long dead
Who once-were woman or man.
In a putrid stinking cesspool
That once was a lovely place,
Monsters battle against monsters
Beyond the end of space.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCB DEXE XADF DGFX BHXH XXXE GIXI XBXB XXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 0010101 00111110100 011101 1101110 001111011 11111011 0101001111 00101101 1001001 01011010 010101 1011 1100101 1010111 0101111 11001 1101100 010010110 10100010100 01111100 0011111 110101101 01110111 101011 010101 1010111 1101011 0010101 1110101 10100110 010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Zombies guard the outpost In a loathsome muddy place, In a war that's gone on for millennia Throughout all time and space.
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Written on July 28, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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