Analysis of HOUSE ON CEMETERY HILL

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



In the house on Cemetery Hill
Evil creatures lie in wait,
Waiting patiently for innocents
To move into this foul estate.

Lurking beasts slowly stir
As nightfall quickly descends,
Hoping for the guileless to enter
Before the malignant night ends.

Grotesqueries hide by daylight
Sleeping the sunlight away,
Then slinking into the open
At night, the monsters play.

Creeping death is lurking
Within the wavering shadows,
Awaiting naive travellers
To fill the dreams with horrors.

In the house on Cemetery Hill
Ancient evil surely resides,
Beings from the Mesozoic Era
And phantoms newly died.

Monstrosities from out of time
Daemons too horrid to ever face,
Gargoyles from another realm
Abominations from out of space.

In the house on Cemetery Hill
Where Mutated things dwell,
The unsuspecting come to stay
And are trapped in an Earthly Hell.

THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme Abxb cdcd xexe xxff Axgx xhxh Aiei xxg
Poetic Form
Metre 00111001 1010101 101001100 11011101 101101 111001 101010110 01001011 1111 100101 1101010 110101 101110 0101001 0101100 1101110 00111001 10101001 101001010 010101 11111 11101101 110101 11111 00111001 11011 0010111 01101101 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 916
Words 167
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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In the house on Cemetery Hill Evil creatures lie in wait, Waiting patiently for innocents To move into this foul estate.

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Written on January 26, 2022

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on February 04, 2022

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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