Analysis of GIANT WINGED SAURIANS
Giant winged saurians
Told of in ancient lore,
Spied by terrified folk
As fiery dragons soar.
Exhaling fire and smoke
They fly through the sky,
To terrorise small villages
Within the countryside.
Serpentine horrors swoop
Down on questing knights,
Whooshing flaming death
Toward hapless passersby.
Stench of fire and brimstone
Pervades this tortured land,
As reptilian monsters descend
Upon an unsuspecting band:
A band of stragglers walking
Outside through the forest,
Unaware of lurking saurians
Of imminent searing death.
Giant winged saurians
Killing everything below,
Fearful villagers running
As they hear a shrill bellow.
Scaly monsters attacking
Innocents they find outside,
Slaughtering many hundreds
Within a single horrid night.
Living many centuries
Green and towering beasts,
Slaughtering man or animal
On who's carcasses they feast.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abcb cxad xaex xfgf hxae Aihi hdax aaxx gax |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 110101 11101 1100101 11001 11101 111100 01010 10101 1111 1101 0110100 1110010 011101 10101001 0110101 0111010 111010 011101 1100101 1011 101001 1010010 1110110 110010 1001111 1001010 01010101 1010100 101001 10011100 1110011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 160 |
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) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
I started writing poetry in May 1972. This is my 8th dragon poem to date and the first I have written in at least a dozen years. It is also the first in traditional 4-line, rhyming verse style. The others are all haiku sets (where each verse is a haiku) or renge/renga style.
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Written on July 11, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on July 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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