Analysis of Alligator On The Prowl In Full Moon
Round balls of pearly white gas,
with thin wisps of grey cloud floating haphazardly,
as cool as snow drops of ice at night,
assassinating traces of daytime heat,
with crystal beams of singular fluorescent light,
perched high in the galaxy of stars,
revolving at astronomical speeds across the Sun periphery,
being the only source of placid comfort during pitch dark ambience of the night,
the celestial figure of the moon smiled mischievously,
as the hour hand ticked past midnight in city clock tower.
the lethal alligator waded silently through the waters,
biting mighty chunks of dead logwood,
flickering its abraded tail at small cocoons of fish,
squirting blood from its eyeball,
opening its kingly jaw to display an armory of canine teeth.
there were men ahead pedaling a row boat,
consuming large glasses of ravishing gin tonic,
with strong fishing rods levered skillfully in the jungle stream,
they joked, sung, swayed their bodies in the arid air,
little knowing of the deadly monster stealthily encroaching,
the beast sank a few feet beneath the boat,
gave loud snorts toppled it crushing sewn timber to mangled junk,
loud wails besieged the night calm,
the moonlight clearly portrayed torn parts of their bodies,
white waters smudged with fresh human blood,
the birds screeched loudly in the sky,
as the 20 feet long crocodile relished man flesh,
trapped between the cavities of its elephant teeth.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 111111101000 111111111 010010111 11011100101 110010011 01010100101010100 100101110101011100101 00101010111 10101111010110 010100101001010 10101111 100111110111 101111 10011011011100111 10101100011 0101101100110 11101110000101 111111000101 10101010101010 0110110101 111101101101101 1101011 011001111110 110111101 01110001 1011101011 1010100111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 1,407 |
| Words | 231 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 5, 13 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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