Analysis of Murder
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
Upon the threshold, red-eyed Murder stands,
Fresh from his slaughter-house of human meat,
Blood on his broken teeth and on his hands,
Blood on his nails and on his purple feet.
With hollow voice he speaks, and sick'ning breath,
'A way there is, that only way is death!….
The dead will rise no more,-the dead are dead!
The spared will creep behind the sparer's back,
And breathe their plots and stab. The dead are dead!
And lie along the safe triumphal track.
The young-eyed babe, will lisp it's little tales.
The loving girl will slay her main in bed
Kissing his savage mouth, the victor fails
At Mercy's seat. The dead are safely dead'.
Scheme | ABABCCDEDEFDFD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111101 1111011101 1111010111 1111011101 1101110111 0111110111 0111110111 011101011 0111010111 0101010101 0111111101 0101110101 1011010101 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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