Analysis of Daughter of the Dark
The fire hisses, the cauldron bubbles,
Daughter of the night, stirring up troubles
Adding ingredients to her brew,
Elements of evil come into view.
Bent of form with a twisted limb,
Malevolence is deep within.
Malice seeps from every pore,
Eminating from her very core.
Her voice a rasp, within her lair,
She offers up unholy prayer
At an altar formed of bones and skin,
Beseeching power to perform sin.
Under the dark mantle, the witch takes flight.
Her broomstick streaking through the night,
Sinister eyes with a burning stare,
Searching for a hapless soul to snare.
A touch of blight, the spread of disease,
Acts of rancor to spread unease,
The spells are cast, the deeds are spawned,
Returning home before the dawn.
Scheme | AABB XCDD EECC FFEE GGXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101001010 1010110110 100100101 1001101011 11110101 11101 10111001 110101 01010101 11010101 111011101 010101011 1001100111 0110101 100110101 101010111 011101101 11101101 01110111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
A poem about a witch on All Hallow's Eve
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