Analysis of MEMORY OF EVIL

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



Evil memories flood your mind
From the time you lived before,
When terror stalked this regal land
And life was hard and raw.

When creatures of the endless night
Broke through to stalk the day,
And death and madness, hand-in-hand
Hunted right across the plains.

Evil memories of evil times
When madness roamed afar,
And beings, barely human then
Found life was almost too hard.

Beings from an evil time
Stalked across the evil land,
And twilight creatures swooped and fed
On anything that came to hand.

Evil Memories of erstwhile times
When fear and loathing filled your life,
When every step was danger wrought
And death was ever rife.

Terror was a way of life
Nightmares haunted day and night,
Great lumbering creatures terror-borne
Would hunt, and kill, and fight.

Evil memories plague your mind
Reminding you of evil times,
When kill or be killed was the way
In far off distant climes.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme AXBX CDBX EXXX XBXB EFXF FCXC AEDE XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10100111 1011101 11011101 011101 11010101 111101 01010101 1010101 101001101 110101 01010101 111111 1011101 1010101 0110101 1101111 10100111 11010111 110011101 011101 1010111 110101 110010101 110101 10100111 01011101 11111101 011101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 930
Words 164
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

Memories of an evil life, you may, or may not have lived in a far-off place and time.

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Written on April 28, 2014

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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