Analysis of Haunted Haiku
1.
“No, mommy. No! NO!”
Screams calm to peaceful silence.
Wipe blade clean of blood.
2.
Apples fall again.
Night howls. Scarecrow sees
the hunter stalk by moonlight.
3.
“What is in this stew?”
The waitress smiles. Let him try
to forget me now.
4.
Walk of the undead
through midnight cornfield. They count
count count till they win.
5.
Satan and demons
here, God and His angels there.
Good folks on both sides.
6.
Midnight crossroad grave,
eternity sings the dead;
low down guitar blues.
7.
Learn three magic words,
never go broke: “Stick ‘em up!”
The hanging tree waits.
Scheme | AXXB AXXX AXXX ABXX AXXX AXXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011 1111010 11111 1 10101 11101 010111 1 11011 0101111 10111 1 1101 11111 11111 1 10010 1101101 11111 1 111 0100101 11011 1 11101 1011111 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
A little Halloween fun.
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Written on October 20, 2021
Submitted by wiltont123 on October 20, 2021
Modified on April 10, 2023
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