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
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.
Written on July 11, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on July 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Abcb cxad xaex xfgf hxae Aihi hdax aaxx gax |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 160 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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