Analysis of THE LAND OF THE DAMNED
Terror stalks the lonely streets
Of a town that is lost to fear,
Silence rules the roads by night
As a malignant figure nears.
Screaming breaks the silence
As an awful creature comes,
Scything heads like barley ears
Until the night is done.
No-one dares to even plea
As terror heads their way,
Nothing living dares to move
And none dare even pray.
Crying throughout the night
In this doleful place,
Death in black raiments
Set against the human race.
Claw-like scratching echoes
Through this dreadful town,
Squid-like beaks are pecking
To break a thick door down:
Inside the door six people
Hide their lives away,
But scuttling death approaches
And hours remain till day.
Soon screaming cries ring out
As clawing, biting, pecking,
Reduces six poor people
To a bloody, seeping mess.
Horror fills the night
In a town that’s lost to fear,
No-one living dares to breathe
And no outside dares come near.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCD XXDX XEXE CFAF XGHG IEXE XHIX CBXB XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10111111 1010111 10010101 101010 1110101 111101 010111 1111101 110111 1010111 011101 100101 01101 1011 1010101 111010 11101 111110 110111 0101110 11101 11001010 0100111 110111 1101010 0101110 1010101 10101 0011111 1110111 0111111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 939 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
A horror poem about a scuttling horror that has a town lost to fear.
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Written on July 29, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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