Analysis of Haunted Jester



In the still of night, when moonbeams play,
On the abandoned halls of decay,
A whisper echoes through the air,
A voice that sends shivers down your spine, beware.

The wind moans softly through the trees,
As the shadows seem to come alive with ease,
The creaking floorboards, the groaning walls,
A symphony of terror that enthralls.

A figure lurks within the dark,
Its eyes aglow like fiery sparks,
A ghostly apparition, a harbinger of doom,
A terror from beyond the tomb.

The sound of laughter, low and mean,
Echoes through the haunted scene,
The ghostly echoes of a long-dead past,
A chorus of the damned, forever fast.

The cobwebs sway, the rats do play,
In this chamber of decay,
A place where the living dare not tread,
A world of terror, where the dead are led.

So beware, dear traveler, of the night,
And of the things that hide from sight,
For the horrors that lurk within the dark,
Will leave you shivering, with a nightmare's mark


Scheme AABB CCXC DXEE FFGG AAHH IIDD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 00111111 100101101 01010101 01111011101 01110101 1011110111 01010101 010011011 01010101 110111001 010010010011 01010101 01110101 1010101 0101010111 0101010101 0110111 0110101 011010111 0111010111 1011100101 01011111 1010110101 1111001011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 944
Words 196
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by Thedarkworld on June 11, 2023

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