Halloween
Lindsay G H Hall 1954 (Oxford)
Flaunting idle, evanescent charms
Banshees prowl, befoul, besmirch
And stalk the streets of sense
With ghastly howl, screeching lust
For blood or ale, cheap thrills or vain
Tricks and treats; and, having wailed
Their hymns to infernal deities
And spent their foolish, wasted moments
Of concupiscence, harlotry or plain
Nescience, stagger, stupefied, to bed.
They party, then die, in shallow shade
Cast by the luminous fire
Of commemorated saints
On this, All Hallows’, Eve.
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Submitted by LindsayGeorge on May 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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